Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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    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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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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