Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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    An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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