Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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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    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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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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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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