Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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    There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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