Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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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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    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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