{"id":303827,"date":"2026-02-18T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303827\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:42:08","slug":"30-facts-about-space-that-are-actually-mind-blowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303827\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Facts About Space That Are Actually Mind-Blowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      4.<\/p>\n<p>      Everything you can see\u2014stars, planets, galaxies, your phone, you\u2014makes up less than 5% of the universe. Based on current cosmological models, about 68% of the universe is Dark energy and roughly 27% is Dark matter. Together, that\u2019s around 95% of reality made of stuff we can\u2019t directly see.<\/p>\n<p>All the \u201cnormal\u201d matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it\u2019s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that\u2019s mostly invisible and still not fully understood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4. Everything you can see\u2014stars, planets, galaxies, your phone, you\u2014makes up less than 5% of the universe. Based&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[777,61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-303827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-evergreen","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}