Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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    The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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    Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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    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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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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