Gyroscope spinning in zero gravity is unexpectedly mesmerising

 By 
Blathnaid Healy
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The most average of objects such as this toy gyroscope are completely hypnotic when you add in the x factor of the International Space Station and zero gravity.

The BBC got British astronaut Tim Peake to try out the trick recently and once he starts spinning the toy, no matter what way he tries to knock it, it remains in the plane in which it's spinning.

Space is awesome.

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