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Monday, January 10, 2011

Science unbelivable Facts....Part-4

#1...The biggest stars in the galaxy are called supergiants and hypergiants. A red supergiant can be 1,500 times bigger than the sun.!

#2...An oily plant substance called petrichor is what causes the smell after rainfall.Plants secrete it during dry periods and the scent is released when it rains.

#3...Migrating birds are sensitive to the earth's magnatic field and use it to guide them during their flights.

#4...Most colours have a wavelength, but brown doesn't. It's just a combination of other colours and their wavelengths.

#5...Only one in 1,000 oysters contains a pearl.

#6...Water is the only substance that occurs naturally in liquid,solid,gas forms(water,ice and steam).

#7...There are 5,00,000 detectable earthquakes around the world each year.Luckily they measure less in richter scale

#8...Light is the fastest thing in the universe and travels at more than 3,00,000 Kilometres(1,80,000 miles) per hour

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