Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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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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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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