Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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 is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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    There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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    Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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