Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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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    In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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