Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
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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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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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