Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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    Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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    An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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