Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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    The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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