Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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    Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    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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