Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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    The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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    The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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