Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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    There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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    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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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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    Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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