Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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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 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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    The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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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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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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