Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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    Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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    Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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