10 Facts You Didn't Know About Mercury!

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@nattystorytime9781 6 ай бұрын

What would you say if I ask you what is the color of Neptune? Your first instinct might be blue, or more accurate, dark blue. Now I’ll ask you again. What is the color of Uranus? You might say blue again, or more precise, light blue. But in reality Neptune is actually also light blue! NASA just re-colored to make the Great Dark Spot more noticeable to the human eye.

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

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@tkuvma4372 6 ай бұрын

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@OnTheShouldersofScience 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Still trying to grow

@kirkmangaming 6 ай бұрын

Fact: though some scenes would have you believe otherwise, the entirety of the movie Starship Troopers was filmed on planet Earth!

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

News to me! Lol

@itsmegiorgio 6 ай бұрын

Fun Fact: Jupiter's Red Spot is preficted to disappear in the mext 10 years. Another icon of the solar system that will disapper are Saturn's Rings, but that will take a few million years

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

I couldn't count this one because I didn't see any evidence to support it online. I saw that it is expected to reduce in size in the coming decades, but it's unlikely to disappear entirely. Some estimates on the spot's disappearance put it in a couple decades, but others put it in the next few centuries

@rockstargaming2866 6 ай бұрын

1 The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a storm that has been raging for at least 150 years. 2. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, with surface temperatures reaching up to 462°C (863°F).

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

True! I knew both of these however **evil laughter**

@OnTheShouldersofScience 6 ай бұрын

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@itscookingtime9788 6 ай бұрын

The Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies beyond Neptune, is thought to contain many small, undiscovered planets.

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

Very true! I did however already know this from my previous video on why Pluto isn't a planet

@Ryloon 6 ай бұрын

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@IMbros1138 6 ай бұрын

The Sun makes up 99.8% of the mass of our solar system, with Jupiter making up most of the remaining 0.2%.

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

Pretty crazy! I did know that the percentage was in this area. Now, here's my impression of the average KZbin commenter, "The sun is actually 99.86% of the solar system's mass, so that actually round to 99.9% if you use one decimal place." XD

@razaop3168 6 ай бұрын

The Fact The Sun is actually white, not yellow. It appears yellow to us because our atmosphere scatters the shorter wavelengths of light, making it appear more yellow.

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

This is a really cool fact, and I want to give you the prize, but a friend of mine in 20th century physics class talked to me about this a few months ago and how this can interfere with measuring the temperature of the sun from the ground. So I already knew it :(

@knnh3361 6 ай бұрын

The asteroid belt and kuiper belt are actually so spread out that you wouldn't be able to see nearby objects, its a rough outline sparsely dotted over a astronomically large circle.

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

A very good factoid. Very few people realize this! Unfortunately, I knew all about this after researching for the Jupiter video.

@jaimeirigoyenlopez5884 6 ай бұрын

Fun fact! The word asteroid comes from the latin root aster, meaning star and the root -oid which means alike or similar, this is because big asteroids observed from earth looked like stars but clearly were something different.

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

This comment almost won because I didn't know this, but aster is a greek root. Sorry to get pedantic on you :/

@jaimeirigoyenlopez5884 5 ай бұрын

@@OnTheShouldersofScience To be even more pedantic, the Latin root aster comes from Greek astḗr. The English language use of the declination is Latin, not Greek. The suffix -oid, is also Latin (Even though again, it is borrowed from the Hellenistic -oīdēs). But if you want to get even more ridiculous, the classical period astḗr originates from the Proto-Indo-European, linguists have reconstructed the word as *h₂stḗr, which is a combination of the prefix *h₂e(h₁)s and the suffix *-tḗr, meaning something around the lines of "to burn" and "shiny". I don't think Sir William Herschel, the astronomer who coined the term, was really considering Proto-Indo-European or ancient Greek when he came up with the word. In fact it is far more likely that he looked through the lentis (genitive of the Latin origin for lens) of his then called telescopium (another Latin word with Greek roots) and decided to use the academic language he was very familiar with (Latin) to name the peculiar object he observed.

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

@@jaimeirigoyenlopez5884 Thank you for bringing this to my attention! I’ve done some more digging and found that contrary to popular opinion, Herschel didn’t actually coin the term asteroid. Herschel had discovered these new celestial objects, but couldn’t settle on a good name. There are some old letters that show how Herschel asked his friend, Charles Burney Sr., for some suggestions. He suggested “asteriskos” and “stellula” and then wrote to his son asking for his opinion. Charles Burney Jr. was a Greek scholar, and he suggested “asteroid.” Herschel liked that one the best and so published his paper using it. So Burney would have had the Greek roots in mind when naming it.

@jaimeirigoyenlopez5884 5 ай бұрын

@@OnTheShouldersofScience Wow! It seems like you are absolutely right! I've been humbled and I've learned some extra cool fact. Thank you!

@LuciferMorningstar002 6 ай бұрын

Mars has the tallest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, which stands at a height of 27 km (17 mi).

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

Yes, Olympus Mons! Unfortunately for you, Mars was my favorite planet as a kid so I knew that!

@gkvk6348 6 ай бұрын

If you think the night sky on Earth is beautiful, then you might be wondering what it looks like on our own moon. But you won't really even see anything on there since our moon is full of dust and some ice which are pretty reflective. So instead of an assumed sky full of stars('cause you're a sky~ 'cause you're a sky full of stars, I'm gonna give you my heart~~), all you're gonna see is just Earth, plain old Earth...that is 4.543 billion years old. LOL!

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

This is interesting. There does seem to be some evidence that there is a sparse dust cloud covering the moon, but evidence is inconclusive. Apollo astronauts however, as you say, could not see other stars in the sky. This more more probably because their eyes were adjusted to the harsh sunlight reflecting off the white moon making their eyes not sensitive enough to detect stars. So it was not necessarily because of dust and ice. On the dark side however, you will probably be able to see more stars than anyone can on Earth.

@Yenvivi-hd3cl 6 ай бұрын

Have you ever seen children doodles about our sun, and coloring them in weird colors like green or black or blue? You know, some of them might be right! Despite most common belief, our sun isn’t red, orange, or yellow! Instead, if it were, you won’t be reading this right now. Our sun is actually green. It appears to be all those different colors due to the molecules in our atmosphere!

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

I believe there are more green photons emitted from the sun than any other color, but this is very different than the sun being green

@1Sanders-ux8ql 6 ай бұрын

Did you know that there's a possibility of a ninth planet lurking at the edge of our solar system? This hypothetical planet, often referred to as "Planet Nine" or "Planet X," is thought to be several times more massive than Earth and may orbit the Sun from a distance much farther than Neptune's orbit. Its existence is inferred from the peculiar orbits of some distant objects in the Kuiper Belt, but as of now, it remains undiscovered.

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

This was a theory for a while, but it has since been disproven

@vivianyen9246 6 ай бұрын

Did you know that our sun is not the center of our solar system? Our own sun is actually rotating around an energy ball, or field, or whatever you want to call it, and our orbit is around the sun, meaning we are moving left and right in our orbit.

@OnTheShouldersofScience 5 ай бұрын

I wasn't quite sure how to interpret this. I think what you mean is that all of the planets orbit around the center of mass of the solar system and not the center of the sun. This point is called the barycenter of the solar system, and yes, the sun rotates around it. And interestingly, our orbit is not around the center of the sun, but also around this barycenter (which is close to the center of the sun, but not exactly on it)