Random Space Facts

    59 facts tagged with Space Facts

    If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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    Anti-Comet Pills
    Anti-Comet Pills
    In 1910, as Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet, people bought "Anti-Comet Pills", special "comet umbrellas", and gas masks, because there was public hysteria that all life on Earth would be destroyed by gas - called cyanogen - that was detected in the tail.
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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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    There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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    Game Boy Uses More Computing Power Than First Lunar Mission
    The technology of a single Game Boy exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
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    Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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 two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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