Space Facts

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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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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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    An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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