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10 AWESOME FACTS ABOUT OUTER SPACE THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!

A list of my favorite outer space facts from my book What Does Outer Space Smell Like?.

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1. AN XBOX 360 IS...

...99% more powerful than the computer system on a space shuttle! Yep, that’s right! That gaming system sitting in your bedroom has more power than the space shuttle that flew to the moon!
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2. WITHOUT FUEL...

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...a space shuttle would not be able to stop flying through outer space! It would just keep flying and flying and flying and flying.

3. NASA TRACKS...

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...about 500,000 pieces of space junk flying around Earth at 17,500 miles per hour!

4. 266 MILLION YEARS...

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...is how long it takes our sun to make just one full orbit around the Milky Way Galaxy!

5. DURING THE NEW MOON PHASE...

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...the moon is virtually invisible to us because it’s directly in front of the sun. It’s right there but we can’t see it since the bright side is facing toward the sun and away from us!

6. YOU CAN PICK UP A METEORITE...

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...with your bare hands! The fiery ball that you see is just the freezing rock crashing through our atmosphere.

7. PLANETS DON'T TWINKLE BECAUSE...

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...they’re closer to Earth than stars are. Our atmosphere doesn’t distort their light as much as it does with the light from stars which are billions and trillions of miles away from us!

8. ASTEROIDS AREN'T ROUND BECAUSE...

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...they’re too small. Gravity forces large celestial objects to become spherical and asteroids are just too small to create enough gravity to make them round.
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9. THE MOON AT THE HORIZON IS...

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...the same exact size as it is when it’s way up high in the sky! It only looks bigger because of the “moon illusion”. Our eyes are able to compare the size of the moon with other objects like buildings and trees when it’s lower on the horizon. But, we have nothing to compare the size to when it’s high up in the sky.
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10. ALL THE GAS GIANT PLANETS ARE IN THE BACK OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM BECAUSE...

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...solar wind from the sun blasted away all the gas from the atmospheres of the planets closest to the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars!
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outer space facts, outer space myths, facts about outer space, myths about outer space, what does outer space smell like
outer space facts, outer space myths, facts about outer space, myths about outer space, what does outer space smell like
outer space facts, outer space myths, facts about outer space, myths about outer space, what does outer space smell like
outer space facts, outer space myths, facts about outer space, myths about outer space, what does outer space smell like
outer space facts, outer space myths, facts about outer space, myths about outer space, what does outer space smell like

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Alec Owens, aka Alec the Science Kid, created Flydoodle Science when he was just 9 years old to show the world how awesome science really is. Now, at 14 years old, he's the author of 5 science books for kids, he's interviewed tons of cool science people like Steve Spangler, Pamela Gay, and Bill Wallauer on his online radio show, and he regularly appears on numerous news channels in the Phoenix area doing fun science demonstrations that any kid can do from home! 

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