Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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    The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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