Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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    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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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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