Space Facts

    Random 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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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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    Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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