Random Space Facts

The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.

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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.

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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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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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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.

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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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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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