Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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 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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    Astronauts get taller when they are in 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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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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