Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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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 volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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