Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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    Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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    If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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