Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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    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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    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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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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    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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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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