Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
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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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    If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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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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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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