Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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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    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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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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    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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    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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    On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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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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