Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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    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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    It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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