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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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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