Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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    Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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    Sun Color
    Sun Color
    The Sun is actually white. Viewed from space or a high altitude, it appears as its true color; white. Whereas viewed from a low altitude, atmospheric rendering makes it appear as yellow.
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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    The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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