Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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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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    Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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