Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
    15
    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
    159
    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
    986
    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.
    32
    There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
    5
    Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
    6
    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
    721
    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.
    20