Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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    Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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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 Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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