Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

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    The Sun is actually white. Viewed from space or a high altitude, it appears as its true color; white. Whereas viewed from a low altitude, atmospheric rendering makes it appear as yellow.
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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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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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    It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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