Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    Sun Color
    Sun Color
    The Sun is actually white. Viewed from space or a high altitude, it appears as its true color; white. Whereas viewed from a low altitude, atmospheric rendering makes it appear as yellow.
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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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