Space is a place where the usual rules break, and the ideas of “normal” and “possible” become something completely different.

When we look at stars and galaxies, everything seems logical: planets go around the Sun, and the Sun gives us light. But when we look closer, things get really strange.

Take Venus, for example. On Earth, we think a day is 24 hours and a year is about 365 days. But on Venus, because it spins so slowly, one day is longer than one year. That means if you lived there, it would take more than two Earth years just to see one full day pass! It’s like time moves differently on Venus. Day and night come so slowly, it doesn’t feel normal anymore.

Now think about neutron stars. They are so dense that just one tiny cube of their matter — only one cubic centimeter — can weigh 400 million tons. That’s like putting the whole Earth into something the size of a teapot! The gravity there is so strong, it would crush anything we know on Earth. We usually think we understand things like weight and density, but neutron stars change everything we know.

These facts make us ask big questions: is our idea of “reality” only based on what we know on Earth? What if time and space work differently in other parts of the universe? Space shows us that “normal” is not the same everywhere, and there is still so much we don’t know.

Even though these strange things happen far away, they remind us that in space, almost anything is possible — even things we can't imagine yet.

"Space is not just around us — it is within us, in every question we ask about what is possible."