Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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    A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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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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    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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