Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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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    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
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    1054 AD Supernova
    1054 AD Supernova
    In the year 1054 AD, there was an explosion in the sky so bright that it was visible for 23 days straight, even during the day.
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    The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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