Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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    Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    Sun Color
    Sun Color
    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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    The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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