Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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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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    The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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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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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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    The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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