Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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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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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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    Sun Color
    Sun Color
    The Sun is actually white. Viewed from space or a high altitude, it appears as its true color; white. Whereas viewed from a low altitude, atmospheric rendering makes it appear as yellow.
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    The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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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