Just half a billionth of the energy released by the sun reaches the Earth.

Most of the elements found in the human body originated in stars; we are literally
made of stardust.
Every year the sun evaporates 100,000 cubic miles of water from Earth (that weighs
400 trillion tonnes!)
If you were to drive a car at 100 kilometres an hour, 24 hours a day then you could
reach the Sun in about 171 years.
The centre of the Milky Way galaxy is about 26,000 light years, or roughly 245
quadrillion (245,000,000,000,000,000) kilometres. Our next closest galaxy is the
Andromeda Galaxy, which is about 2.5 million light years away, or roughly
26,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilometres. The best estimate of the size of the
observable universe (given that it has been expanding for 13.7 billion years), is about
156 billion light years (1,560,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilometres) across.
Within the Solar System, the average temperature on Pluto is around -235C, on
Neptune around -220C, on Uranus -210C, on Saturn -184C and on Jupiter 153C. The temperature on Mars varies between about -87C and -5C, with an
average of around -46C. The lowest natural temperature on Earth (recorded at
Vostok, Antarctica in 1983) is -89C; the highest surface temperature on Earth
(recorded at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya in 1922) is 58C; the mean overall temperature on
Earth is 14C.
Mercury can get as hot as 800 degrees and can be as cold as 300 degrees below
zero.
A day on Mercury, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about six Earth months.
The moon is 27% the size of the Earth.
Full Moons occur 29.5 days apart, so we sometimes get 13 full Moons a year.
The Earth is rotating on its axis at a rate of 460 metres per second at the equator,
and is orbiting the Sun at a rate of about 30 kilometres per second. The sun is
orbiting the centre of the Milky Way at a rate of about 220 kilometres per second.
The Milky Way is moving at a speed of about 1000 kilometres per second towards a
huge mass 150 million light years away called the Great Attractor
Only 4% of the universe is what we can actually see, stars, galaxies, planets,
nebulae etcthe rest is dark. Around 22% is made up of dark matter, and the rest
74% is made up of dark energy
You would need to travel at 6.95 miles per second to escape the Earths gravitational
pull.
The speed of light is 670 million miles per hour, or 380,000 miles per second, or the
speed you would have to travel to go around the Earth 7 times in one second. Even
if you could travel at this speed it would still take 100,000 years to cross our Milky
Way Galaxy
The universe contains about 50,000,000,000 galaxies each of which has between
100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars

Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars and it is estimated by astronomers
that there are 100 billion other galaxies in the universe.
If a piece of the sun the size of a pinhead were to be placed on Earth, you could not
safely stand within 90 miles of it!
Only 5% of the universe is made up of normal matter, 25% is dark matter and 70% is
dark energy.
The Universe was once thought to be everything that could ever exist, but recent
theories about inflation (e.g. Big Bang) suggest our universe may be just one of
countless bubbles of space time.
Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of about 150 million kilometres, and
about bout 28,000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.
The nuclear fusion reactions in the Suns core send out billions of light photons every
minute but they take 10 million years to reach its surface.
Space is not a complete vacuum, there are about 3 atoms per cubic meter of space.
As late as 1820, the universe was thought by European scientists to be 6,000 years
old. It is now thought to be about 13,700,000,000 years old.
Big bang theory is the most common theory of Universe origin. According to this
theory universe has expanded some 12-14 billion years ago from a primordial hot
and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past, and continues to expand to
this day.
Jupiter acts as a huge vacuum cleaner, attracting and absorbing comets and
meteors. Some estimates say that without Jupiters gravitational influence the
number of massive projectiles hitting Earth would be 10,000 times greater.
The gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that it can swallow anything in
the universe, even a passing star and its light. If an object weighing 1 kg is brought
to within 6 m of a black hole, it would weight a million million tonnes.