Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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    Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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