Space Facts

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    Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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    An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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    The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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