6. Feeling Weightless? Me Too

We all know space is a big void o’ nothing, absent of light, atmosphere, air, and just about everything else. But, as it turns out, it is not void of gravity like we might think. Everywhere in space has at least a bit of a gravitational pull, be it towards the sun, the earth, the galactic center, or somewhere else, depending on where you are. The moon, for example, continues to orbit the Earth because of its gravity.

Essentially, most large objects have a big enough pull that everything is always falling toward them but always misses. So why is it like this? It seems to have something to do with the sheer size of space; everything is just too big to reach it in time, so instead things are eternally falling, missing, and then falling the other direction toward the object that had moved. AKA, orbiting.