Fact 1: The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, born from the Big Bang, a massive expansion of space.
Fact 2: There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all Earth's beaches combined.
Fact 3: The largest known star, UY Scuti, is so big that it would take 7 hours to fly around it in a plane.
Fact 4: Black holes can have a mass up to 20 billion times more than our Sun and not even light can escape.
Fact 5: The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course, set to merge in 4 billion years.
Fact 7: The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, with galaxies moving away from each other.
Fact 8: The cosmic microwave background radiation is the afterglow of the Big Bang, still detectable.
Fact 9: Dark matter and dark energy make up about 95% of the universe, yet remain mysterious.
Fact 10: The Hubble Space Telescope can look back in time, observing light from billions of years ago.