Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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    Sun Color
    Sun Color
    The Sun is actually white. Viewed from space or a high altitude, it appears as its true color; white. Whereas viewed from a low altitude, atmospheric rendering makes it appear as yellow.
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    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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    Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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    Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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