Neutron Star Spin
Some neutron stars rotate 716 times per second – faster than a kitchen blender yet as dense as a mountain.
AstroClub
Celestial Curiosity Collective
Neon nights, glassy nebulae, and fact-packed missions designed to hook curious kids and grown-up stargazers alike. Bring your brightest imagination, learn outrageous cosmic facts, and get ready for playful science challenges with the club.
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Galactic Fact
If you could drive to Pluto at highway speeds, the trip would last more than 6,000 years.
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Observation Tip
Let your eyes adjust to darkness for 20 minutes; your retinas become 10,000× more sensitive.
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Deep Sky Target
The Orion Nebula sits only 1,344 light-years from Earth.
Primary Mission – Join the Crew
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Space Fact Deck
Blazing truths from the cosmic archive
These facts keep curiosity glowing.
Solar Wind
The Sun sheds 1.3 million tons of material every second in the form of charged particles called the solar wind.
Venus Day
A single day on Venus lasts longer than a Venusian year – it takes 243 Earth days to rotate once.
Galactic Voyage
Our Solar System takes 230 million years to orbit the Milky Way – dinosaurs saw a different galactic backdrop.
Moonlight delay
Moonlight is sunlight reflected after a 1.3-second trip from the Moon to Earth.
Jupiter Storm
The Great Red Spot has raged for at least 358 years and could swallow three Earths.
Mission Broadcast
Five cosmic updates to wow your crew
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JWST Discovery
In 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope detected water vapor in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-96b.
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Lunar South Pole
India’s Chandrayaan-3 became the first mission to softly land near the Moon’s south pole, confirming frozen water traces.
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Magnetar Burst
Magnetars unleash gamma-ray bursts with the energy our Sun emits over 100,000 years in a mere second.
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Saturn’s Rings Fade
Cassini data reveals Saturn’s rings are raining into the planet and may vanish within 100 million years.
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Galactic Recycling
Stars forge heavier elements and return them to space via supernovae, seeding future star systems.
Rapid Fire Facts
Space trivia carousel
• Mercury swings from 430°C to −180°C because it lacks an atmosphere • There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth • A spoonful of white dwarf matter would weigh as much as an elephant • Voyager 1 speeds through space at roughly 17 km every second • The Andromeda Galaxy approaches the Milky Way at 110 km/s • Saturn could float in a gigantic bathtub thanks to its low density • A single day on Venus outlasts its year, taking 243 Earth days to spin once • Sunlight needs just over eight minutes to reach Earth • The Milky Way spans about 100,000 light-years in diameter • The ISS circles Earth about 16 times each day • Some neutron stars spin 716 times per second • Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has raged for centuries and can swallow Earths • Lunar dust smells like spent gunpowder to returning astronauts • Mars sunsets glow blue because of how dust scatters light • Uranus rolls on its side with a 98-degree axial tilt • Some black holes spin near the speed of light • Solar wind particles paint Earth’s auroras • Pluto’s mountains are built from water ice strong as rock • The cosmic microwave background is a chilly 2.7 Kelvin • The observable universe stretches about 93 billion light-years across