Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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