Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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    An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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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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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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