Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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    On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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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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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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    Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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