Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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    An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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    Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
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    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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    Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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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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    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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