Random Space Facts

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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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    Game Boy Uses More Computing Power Than First Lunar Mission
    The technology of a single Game Boy exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
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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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    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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    There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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    The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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