Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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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    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 volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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    It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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    Astronauts get taller when they are in 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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