Space Facts

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    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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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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    There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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