Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    1054 AD Supernova
    1054 AD Supernova
    In the year 1054 AD, there was an explosion in the sky so bright that it was visible for 23 days straight, even during the day.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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    The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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