Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    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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    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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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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