Space Facts

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    The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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    Sun Color
    Sun Color
    The Sun is actually white. Viewed from space or a high altitude, it appears as its true color; white. Whereas viewed from a low altitude, atmospheric rendering makes it appear as yellow.
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    If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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