Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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    1054 AD Supernova
    1054 AD Supernova
    In the year 1054 AD, there was an explosion in the sky so bright that it was visible for 23 days straight, even during the day.
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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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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun 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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    There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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