Astronomy is a fun science filled with many astronomy fun facts.

Everything from the size and temperature of our own star, the Sun, to the makeup of distant planets is recorded. All of this information can be recalled to entertain and enlighten people.

There are many astronomy fun facts about this sun. It's somewhere between 91 and 94.5 million miles away from our home planet. Scientists are not lazy. The Earth's orbit isn't circular. The distance between us grows larger and smaller throughout the year.

The size of our son also provides many astronomy fun facts. 98% of all the matter in our solar system is inside the Sun. Everything else, counting the earth and all the planets, is a tiny 2%. Over 1.6 million earths would fit inside this star. The sun blows its solar wind out to 50 times the distance between the star and our earth.

Are all astronomy fun facts about the sun? What about the moon? It's the only other space object, besides the earth, over which man has walked. And one human man actually traveled to the moon but never left it. Dr. Eugene Shoemaker was rejected as an astronaut. But when he died he was cremated and his ashes spread over the moon in 1999.

There are even more astronomy fun facts covering the moon. In a famous nursery rhyme a cow jumped over the moon. Believe it or not, as of 1988, 13% of people still believed the moon is made of green cheese. The astronauts who walked on the moon wore suits that weighed 180 pounds on earth but a mere 30 pounds on the lunar surface. Talk about an instant diet.

There are astronomy fun facts about faraway objects too. The stars we see are a gateway to the past. It can take millions of years foe light from some stars to reach us. It could be that some of those stars blinked out long ago. The number of stars in the sky is expressed by a one with 22 zeros following it. That is huge.

Astronomy fun facts can go on forever. But this article has to end. Learn more for yourself.