Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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    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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    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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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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