Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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    There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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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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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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