Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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