Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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 heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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    The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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