Space Facts

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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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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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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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    An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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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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    An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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