Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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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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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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