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[Space fact 1] A teaspoon of matter taken from a neutron star would weigh around 10 billion tons, which is similar to the weight of an average mountain on earth.
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[Space fact 2] Approximately once every 18 months (on average) a total solar eclipse is visible from some place on the Earth’s surface.
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[Space fact 3] Barely a year after the 1969 moon landing, the American public had completely lost interest in space exploration to such an extent that 90% of people surveyed could not remember Neil Armstrong's name.
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[Space fact 4] There is enough matter in the Orion Nebula to produce over 10,000 stars.
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[Space fact 5] Solar eclipses recur in the same place only once every 360–410 years on average.
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[Space fact 6] Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell as a student discovered pulsars. She credits her discovery to impostor syndrome and a fear of being kicked out of college, saying, “I’m a bit of a fighter, so I decided until they threw me out I would work my very hardest". That discovery earned the 1974 Nobel Prize.
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[Space fact 7] Star Trek: TNG character Geordi La Forge was named after George La Forge, a devoted fan of the original Star Trek series. George La Forge had muscular dystrophy and died in 1975.
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[Space fact 8] The Vulcan brain has been described as “a puzzle wrapped in an enigma, housed inside a cranium.”
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[Space fact 9] According to many stories across cultures, the “man in the moon” was placed in the moon for stealing. Different cultures offer various descriptions of what he stole, ranging from a hedgerow to sheep to trying to steal the moon itself.
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[Space fact 10] Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev was in space when the Soviet Union was dissolved. He went up a Soviet citizen and returned a Russian citizen.
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About Space Facts Generator
This space facts generator can generate some interesting space facts for free. These space facts can help you learn some new knowledge and know more about space.
In addition to space facts, you can also generate many other types of random facts, such as game, war, people, language, planets, etc. we have collected more than 12000 interesting facts, which are divided into dozens of categories. You can generate specified categories and a specified number of facts. Many facts are marked with the source, which can help you further verify and mine new content.