Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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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 population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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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    On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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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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    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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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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