Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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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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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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