Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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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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    In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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