Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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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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    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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    Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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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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    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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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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