Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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    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 earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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    1054 AD Supernova
    1054 AD Supernova
    In the year 1054 AD, there was an explosion in the sky so bright that it was visible for 23 days straight, even during the day.
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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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    The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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