Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    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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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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