18 interesting facts about space

Space is a very strange and mysterious place, so here are some interesting facts about it.

1. According to some scientists, the center of Milky Way(our galaxy) tastes like raspberries and smells like rum.
2. One million Earths can fit inside the Sun.
3. A day on Venus is a year on Earth(because Venus is further from the Sun than the Earth is, so it needs more time to spin around it).
4. Merucy is the closest to the Sun, but is't not the hottest planet(425°C, but at night can drop at -180°C), where Venuson on the other hand is 500°C all of the time(making it the hottest planet in the solar system).
5. The Apollo crews(the crew that went on the Moon) did not have any life insurance.
6. If Russia was a planet, it would be almost as big as Pluto(yes, I know, Pluto isn't considered as a planet anymore).
7. Mars has the largest dust storms in the solar system.
8. 99.86% of the solar system’s mass is found in the Sun and the majority of the remaining 0.14% is contained within the solar system’s eight planets.
9. The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way.
10. Comets have two tails: a dust tail (which you can see with the naked eye) and a plasma tail, which is easily photographed but difficult to see with your eyes.
11. Millions of meteoroids travel through Earth’s atmosphere each day.
12. The Moon is drifting away from the Earth3.8cm(1.5in) away every year.
13. The Sun is 4.6 billion years old.
14. Saturn can be seen with the naked eye.
15. Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the solar system(Olympus Mons).
16. Some asteroids have moons of their own.
17. Light from the Sun takes eight minutes to reach Earth.
18. During the 1950’s the USA considered detonating a nuclear bomb on the Moon.