Earth really is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena .

The sun makes up 99.8% of the mass of the solar system.

In case you were wondering, that's 1,989,100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg.

All the other planets, moons, asteroids, and every other bit of matter, including all of the people on Earth, fit into the remaining 0.2%.

NASA/ESA / Via solarsystem.nasa.gov

There’s a gas cloud in the constellation of Aquila that holds enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.

The amount of ethanol was measured in 1995 by British scientists. They found over 30 other chemical compounds in the cloud, but alcohol was the main one, the lead scientist on the study told the New York Times.

Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona / Via caelumobservatory.com

We’ve found over a thousand planets outside our solar system just in the last 20 years.

At the time of publishing we were up to 1822 confirmed planets.

ESO/M. Kornmesser / Via eso.org

Interstellar space sounds kind of eerie.

Voyager 1 recorded the sound of dense plasma vibrating in interstellar space in 2012 and 2013. Play the video to listen to it.

NASA/JPL

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