Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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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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    1054 AD Supernova
    1054 AD Supernova
    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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    The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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