Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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    Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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    The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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