Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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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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    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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 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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    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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    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 ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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