Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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    There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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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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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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    An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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