Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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    Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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