Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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