Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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    Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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    On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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