Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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    There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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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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    An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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