Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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