Random Space Facts

There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.

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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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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

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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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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago

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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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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.

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