The planet Uranus has 27 moons.
Connect With Me
Book a Speaking Engagement
Did You Know?
Quick Facts, For Your Information.
At some point, we’ve all looked up at the night sky and wondered, “What if?” Contemplating the possibilities of mankind’s permanent expansion into the cosmos engenders awe, inspiration and humility. In addition to being incredibly vast, the Universe is a place of unimaginable violence. Like all frontiers before, space is a dangerous place. But it also contains staggering wealth. The known resources of our solar system could easily support a celestial civilization thousands of times greater than Earth. The following factoids are just a taste of what you can expect from Dr. Logan’s engaging sessions.
Based on recent scientific discoveries, the number of terrestrial (i.e. rocky) planets in habitable zones (capable of supporting life) around host stars in the Milky Way galaxy has recently been estimated to be over 45 billion.
In 1936, the first television signal leaked into outer space by Nazi Germany. That signal, now 74 Light Years from Earth, has overtaken the 68 closest stars (including any planets in orbit around them).
“If the Chinese want to live like Americans, we will need the resources of four worlds.” - Liang Conglie (2004), Chinese Ecologist
Venus spins in the opposite direction compared to the Earth and most other planets. This means that the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East.
Jupiter is so large you could fill the inside of it with 1,000 Earths.
Even though you could fit 765 Earths inside Saturn, the gas giant’s density is so low the entire planet would float on water.
If solar systems have formed roughly uniformly in time, on average, 1,000,000 solar systems are formed in the universe each hour.
If a 1 Km wide Asteroid hit the earth, it would equal the force of a 1,000,000 Megaton bomb.
The planet Neptune is 30 times farther away from the sun than Earth.