Random Space Facts

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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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.

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The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite

There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.

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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.

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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

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Astronauts cannot burp in space.

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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.

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In the year 1054 AD, there was an explosion in the sky so bright that it was visible for 23 days straight, even during the day.

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