Random Space Facts

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    Penguin Poop Seen From Space
    Penguin Poop Seen From Space
    Researchers find new emperor penguin colonies by looking for their poop from a satellite in space.
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    Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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    There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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