Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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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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    Olympus Mons
    Olympus Mons
    Olympus Mons, on the planet Mars, is the tallest volcano in the Solar System at a height of 14 miles. It is nearly 3 times the height of Mount Everest.
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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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 earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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