Astronauts on the space station see about 16 sunrises every day.

Space feed

A sunrise over Earth's horizon seen from orbit
Space

16

Astronauts on the space station see about 16 sunrises every day.

Yes. The International Space Station orbits Earth about every 90 minutes at roughly 28,000 kilometers per hour, so its crew passes from night into day around 16 times every 24 hours.

More like this

Venus from Mariner 10
Space

243 days

A rotation on Venus takes longer than its entire year.

Venus takes about 243 Earth days to rotate relative to the stars, longer than its 225-day year. Its solar day, measured from one sunrise to the next, is shorter: about 117 Earth days.

Moving heart of the Crab Nebula
Space

1B tons

A teaspoon of neutron star would weigh about a billion tons.

A teaspoon-sized volume at neutron-star densities can have a mass of roughly a billion tons. This is a density comparison, not a suggestion that stable spoonfuls could be brought to Earth.

Loading more facts...