Space Facts

Fact Page: Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Tags: Sun, Space, Car, Driving, Strange, Interesting

Fact Page: It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
Date Added: 2011-04-11 23:18:42
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This may sound unbelievable, but it is true. Two pieces of metal without any coating on them will form in to one piece in the vacuum of space. This doesn't happen on earth because the atmosphere puts a layer of oxidized material between the surfaces. This might seem like it would be a big problem on the space station but as most tools used there have come from earth, they are already coated with material. In fact, the only evidence of this seen so far has been in experiments designed to provoke the reaction. This process is called cold welding.

Tags: Space, Metal, Science, Interesting

Fact Page: If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
Date Added: 2011-06-07 15:45:24
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The energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago - it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun! The temperature at the core of the sun is 13,600,000 kelvins. All of the energy produced by fusion in the core must travel through many successive layers to the solar photosphere before it escapes into space as sunlight or kinetic energy of particles.

Tags: Light, Science, Space, Earth, Sun, Star

Fact Page: The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
Date Added: 2011-06-07 14:57:52
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Sound waves need some medium to propagate through, and in space there isn't much there. It isn't a complete vacuum, but there needs to be a certain density of molecules to vibrate in order to produce and transmit sound and the density isn't high enough in space.

Tags: Space, Sound, Interesting

Fact Page: Sound doesn't travel in space.
Date Added: 2011-04-28 15:34:01
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Jupiter is around 2.5 times bigger than all of the other planets in our solar system put together (this also includes Plutonian worlds)

Using Planetary Mass as a measurement we can see that Jupiter's mass is equal to just under 318 earths (According to various Nasa Sources).

If we took the next 4 planets in terms of size we would have Saturn (95 Earths), Uranus (14.5 Earths), Neptune (17 Eaths (Note Neptune Diameter is smaller than that of Uranus, thats why Uranus is always classified as a bigger planet) and then Earth (1 Earth), we see that the mass combined of these four is only 127.5 Earths, The remaining planets Venus (0.8 Earth) , Mars (0.1 Earth) and Mercury (0.055 Earth) add very little to the total mass of planets excluding Jupiter.

Tags: Jupiter, Space, Planet, Solar System, Interesting

Fact Page: Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
Date Added: 2011-04-09 01:00:44
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Fact Page: Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
Fact Category: Space Fact

Fact Page: Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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