Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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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 Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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