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Thursday, 18 June 2026
13 facts about Deimos
13 facts about Deimos
A smaller moon of Mars
Deimos is a smaller and more distant Martian moon. Its diameter is only 12.4 km, although it is difficult to talk about the diameter in the case of su ...

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Milky Way
Although not every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, there is one in the center of the Milky Way.
This region, called Sagittarius A*, is a very bright and compact radio source with a mass of 3.7 million solar masses and a diameter of approximately 44 million kilometers.
Graphene
Already in the 19th century, scientists speculated that graphite was composed of layers.
This was only proven through research at the beginning of the 20th century, In 1947, the first theor ...
Cosmos
A memento of annihilation–the Chicxulub crater.
It is located on the Yucatan peninsula under the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The crater was formed ...
Earth
There are over 7.8 billion people in the world.
It took humanity over 2 million years to reach a population of one billion. In 2011, there were 7 bi ...
NASA
The Apollo program launched 11 crew missions between 1968 and 1972.
Out of 11, four were test flights, six ended up delivering men to the Moon, and one had failed to accomplish its goal.
Silver
Silver is also used in the production of electrical and electronic equipment, high-voltage contacts, solder, high-capacity silver-zinc and silver-cadmium batteries, and photovoltaic cells.
Silver is the only catalyst that allows the conversion of ethylene into ethylene oxide, which then undergoes hydrolysis to produce ethylene glycol, used to produce polyester.
Enceladus
The surface temperature of the moon is 75 K.
Moon
The density of the Moon is on average 3346,4 kg/m3.
It is therefore the second densest moon in the Solar System, second only to the moon Io.
Snow
In 2008, there was a violent snowstorm in Afghanistan.
Temperatures there dropped to – 30 degrees Celsius, and up to 180 centimeters of snow fell in most o ...
Ganymede
Ganymede orbits Jupiter at a distance of 1.070.400 kilometers. The complete orbit takes 7 days and 3 hours.