Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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    An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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    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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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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    Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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