Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    Sun Color
    Sun Color
    The Sun is actually white. Viewed from space or a high altitude, it appears as its true color; white. Whereas viewed from a low altitude, atmospheric rendering makes it appear as yellow.
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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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