Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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    Olympus Mons
    Olympus Mons
    Olympus Mons, on the planet Mars, is the tallest volcano in the Solar System at a height of 14 miles. It is nearly 3 times the height of Mount Everest.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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