Space Facts

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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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    There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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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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    There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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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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