Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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    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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    If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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