Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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    The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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    Sun Color
    Sun Color
    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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    On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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