Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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    Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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    It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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    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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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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    A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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