Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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    Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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    There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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