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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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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    There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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    Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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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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    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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