Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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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 travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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 earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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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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    Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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