Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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    The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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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