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It takes sunlight 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach earth. Technically, we are only able to observe the sun in the past, and never the present.
Mercury is the fastest planet in our solar system. It zips around our Sun at an average of 172,000 kilometers per hour (107,000 miles per hour)The time has come to ‘comment your way’ to the stars...or at least for a chance at winning a look at them through an incredible Celestron - 114LCM Computerized Newtonian Telescope!
United States or the UK entries only. Entering the contest is super simple:
🖼Leave a comment with a fact about Space in the forum replies for this article (only comments in this thread are eligible) after that sign your username in our giveaway widget to confirm your entry. You can only enter once.
After the deadline to enter, we’ll randomly select a winner and announce in this thread.
Post your response in the forums before 11:59 PM ET on November 21st, 2019. 11/21/2019. If you’re a winner, we'll reach out to you via private message on our forums for your shipping information. If you don't reply to our message with your shipping address within 5 business days, we'll move on to the next winner, so keep an eye on your inbox!
If you’re reading this, the contest has begun!
Good luck and have fun!
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The Telescope Time!(“Sweepstakes”) begins at 10 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on [10/21/2019] and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on [11/21/2019] (“Sweepstakes Period”).
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-Reply to this thread with a fact about Space. and your Gleam username, and follow the entry steps via gleam. Note: This is a sweepstake, not a talent, photography or knowledge based competition.
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Prize. X1 Celestron - 114LCM Computerized Newtonian Telescope and shipping to either UK or USA.
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Project Gemini was NASA's second human spaceflight program, however if you listen to recordings of the flight engineers, and astronauts talk about the missions, you'll learn it is NOT pronounced "Gemini" as per the third astrological sign in the zodiac, it's pronounced "Jimany" as in Jiminy Cricket... And almost everyone pronounces it wrong today... Including a tour guide at Kenedy that I had to correct 
A star's absolute magnitude is the magnitude a star would have if it were at a distance of 10 parses (32.6 light years)
LIGHT YEAR = The distance traveled by light in one year
LIGHT YEAR = The distance traveled by light in one year
Despite Mercury being the closest planet to the sun, Venus is actually the planet with the hottest temperatures.
All 7 remaining planets and pluto could fit comfortably between the earth and the moon with room to spare.
One fact about space i appreciate is that we live inside a galaxy wirt trillions of stars and have the ability to see through that light with telescopes and find other galaxies.
The distance to nearest star, Proxima Centauri, in astronomical units is 268770, or 40,208,000,000,000,000 km.
Astronomers have detected 8 elements heavier than zinc in the interstellar medium: thorium, lead, gallium, germanium, krypton, tin, arsenic, and selenium.
Since landing on Mars in November 2018, NASA's InSight has been taking selfies, providing daily Martian weather reports, detecting quakes on Mars and hearing strange sound
While Han Solo narrowly navigated a packed asteroid belt in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back, in reality, asteroids have about 400,000 square miles all to themselves. Therefore, the chances of colliding with an asteroid are about one in a billion.
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