Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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    A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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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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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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    An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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