Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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 density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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