Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    1054 AD Supernova
    1054 AD Supernova
    In the year 1054 AD, there was an explosion in the sky so bright that it was visible for 23 days straight, even during the day.
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    Olympus Mons
    Olympus Mons
    Olympus Mons, on the planet Mars, is the tallest volcano in the Solar System at a height of 14 miles. It is nearly 3 times the height of Mount Everest.
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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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    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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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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