Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
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    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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    The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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