Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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    The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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