Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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