Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
    88
    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
    236
    The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
    131
    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
    221
    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
    127
    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
    100