Space Facts Generator

• [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.

  People, Space source

• [Space fact 4]  There is enough matter in the Orion Nebula to produce over 10,000 stars.

  Moon, Space

• [Space fact 5]  Solar eclipses recur in the same place only once every 360–410 years on average.

  Moon, Space

• [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.

  Moon, Space

• [Space fact 8]  The Vulcan brain has been described as “a puzzle wrapped in an enigma, housed inside a cranium.”

  Moon, Space

• [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.

  Moon, Space

• [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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