Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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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    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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    Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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