Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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