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Space is totally silent.
No air = no sound!
In space, there’s no air to carry sound waves, so astronauts can’t hear explosions or spaceship engines the way we do on Earth.
Earth is speeding through space.
We’re moving even when we feel still!
Earth orbits the Sun at about 67,000 miles per hour! That’s faster than a race car... or even a jet.
The Moon is drifting away.
It’s slowly leaving Earth.
The Moon moves about 1.5 inches farther away every year, about the speed your fingernails grow.
The Sun is HUGE.
It could fit a million Earths inside!
The Sun is so giant that you could fit over 1,000,000 Earths inside it.
Saturn could float in water.
It’s lighter than you think!
Saturn is made of mostly gas, and it’s so low-density that if you had a bathtub big enough, it would actually float!
Astronauts grow taller in space.
Space stretches you out!
Without gravity squishing their spines, astronauts can grow up to 2 inches taller while in orbit.
A day on Venus is longer than a year.
That planet is super weird!
Venus spins so slowly that one day on Venus lasts longer than the time it takes to orbit the Sun.
Shooting stars aren’t stars.
They’re tiny space rocks!
A “shooting star” is actually a small meteor burning up as it zooms through Earth’s atmosphere.
Space is full of satellites.
Thousands are orbiting Earth right now!
Satellites help us with GPS, weather forecasts, TV signals, and even space exploration.
FUN SPACE FACTS FOR KIDS
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THANK YOU FOR COMING ALONG ON THIS JOURNEY.