Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
    808
    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.
    32
    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
    986
    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.
    41
    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
    175
    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
    127
    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
    131
    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.
    20