Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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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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    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 light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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    Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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    Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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