Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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    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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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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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