Space Facts

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    1054 AD Supernova
    1054 AD Supernova
    In the year 1054 AD, there was an explosion in the sky so bright that it was visible for 23 days straight, even during the day.
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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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    There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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    An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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