Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a 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 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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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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