Sometimes you wake up in the morning to see an arm floating in front of your face and think, ‘Whoa! I have a strong passion for writing (on good days), a love of anarchic comedy and a weakness for musicals and classic Disney. Eeek! In June 1971, the entire three man crew of the Soyuz 11 tragically died from decompression during re-entry due to a faulty valve. You can see meteor showers in the sky, but they’re usually far away. However, new stars are roughly 6,750° F, so we don't recommend using them as your own personal night light. He was a technician working inside a vacuum chamber at the Johnson space centre in Houston, when he accidentally depressurized his spacesuit and within seconds lost consciousness. Then, when the Sun’s hydrogen is gone, it will expand into a red giant and consume the entire Earth, destroying it and everything on it. Space is littered with human and animal corpses. But here are some ways the smell of space has been described by people who’ve been there: “Carries a distinct odor of ozone, a faint acrid smell.”, “Just imagine sweaty feet and stale body odor, mix that odor with nail polish remover and gasoline … then you get close!”. What's particularly scary is that there are as many of these rogue planets as there are stars in our galaxy - and their size is said to equal that of Jupiter. Here are ten space facts that will blow your mind and creep you out: 1. 15 Scary Facts About Space That Will Give You the Creeps. Of all of the creepy things about space and the universe, these may be the most unsettling. Something unidentified, larger than anything in the known universe, is sucking portions of the Milky Way galaxy, AKA your home, away. As one astronaut, Don Pettit described it: "your feet start to molt, like some reptilian creature. Although it has yet to be observed, the astronomers have noticed strange orbital patterns of smaller objects in the Kuiper Belt. Currently, it’s part of a separate galaxy. That’s five times the temperature of a nuclear explosion.

A group of stars that astronomers have aptly named "vampire stars" go about sucking the life blood of their neighbours in order to go on burning for longer. You can't breathe in space. Eventually, it will run out of nuclear fuel, making it expand into a red giant. The speed of light is equal to 186,000 miles per second. As it expands beyond measure, there will be a ‘rip’ that essentially leads to a mass explosion that destroys the universe. What is that?’ until you realize it’s yours. Copyright 2017-2020 Skies & Scopes © | All Rights Reserved | As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. While it seems fun to float around, spending long periods of time in zero gravity can have serious effects on your mental and physical health. • The universe’s average temperature is a little more than absolute zero—and …