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10 AWESOME SCIENCE FACTS – by Dr. Dennis Bogdan ( new)

HIGHLIGHTS by Years (including 2000s); Breakthroughs; History; Outline; Timelines ( Human, Life, Nature); Questions.

• FACT => ASTRONOMERS have estimated that there are as many as "One Septillion" (1×10²⁴ or, 1 with 24 zeros) STARS in the OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE – more stars than all the grains of beach sand on the planet EARTH.

• FACT => ASTRONOMERS have confirmed (as of July 1, 2024) => "6,660" ExoPLANETS (in "4,868" ExoPlanet Systems and "995" Multi-ExoPlanetary Systems) – after studying only a very, very small portion of the starry sky.

• FACT => The NASA PROBES currently active on the planet MARS (as of July 5, 2024) are the following:
  "PERSEVERANCE" Rover & "INGENUITY" Helicopter => 1200 Sols (1233 Days) (3 years, 138 days) (landed February 18, 2021).
  "CURIOSITY" Rover => 4235 Sols (4351 Days) (11 years, 334 days) (landed August 6, 2012).
  ( USA Flag on Mars – Mars Weather: Perseverance* Curiosity* InSight – Mars Rocks – " Martians Found?").

• FACT => A SPACESHIP from planet EARTH speeding " 165,000 miles an hour" (as fast as our fastest one), would take nearly "20,000 years" to travel beyond our Solar System to the nearest star Proxima Centauri – with no worthy place to land.

• FACT => " SPACESHIP PLANET EARTH" is speeding about " One Million miles an hour" through outer space and, along with the rest of the Milky Way Galaxy, is traveling toward Andromeda Galaxy. ( WikiTalk).

• FACT => The UNIVERSE contains LIFE – on planet EARTH – at least – and – we are NOT ALONE – Life abounds – wherever we are – with Microorganisms – at the very minimum.

• FACT => BIOLOGISTS currently understand that Microorganisms were the only known LIFE FORMS present during the earliest "85%" of time since the planet EARTH was formed " 4.54 billion years ago" – Plants and Animals appear much more recently – in the latest "15%" of time – Modern Humans, much more recently yet – in less than the latest "0.005%" of time.

• FACT => BIOLOGISTS have estimated that over "99%" of "All" SPECIES of LIFE FORMS that have ever lived on planet EARTH are now EXTINCT.

• FACT => CHEMISTS have determined that "All" LIFE FORMS on planet EARTH are based on "ONE" particular chemical – with astronomical variations.

• FACT => PHYSICISTS have estimated that there is about 1×10⁸² (1 with 82 zeros) ATOMS in the OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE, and that additionally, at least "99.9999999%" of all the MATTER in the UNIVERSE, from the very small to the very large, is EMPTY SPACE.