Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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    There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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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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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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    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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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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