10 Facts About Space That Will Rock Your World

10. Jupiter's Red Spot is shrinking

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9. One day on Venus is longer than one year on Earth

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8. The largest asteroid in our solar system is a mammoth piece of space rock named Ceres

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7. If two pieces of the same type of metal touch in space, they will bond and be permanently stuck together

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6. More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year

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5. 99 percent of our solar system's mass is the sun

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4. The Apollo astronauts' footprints on the moon will probably stay there for at least 100 million years

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3. There is an uncountable number of stars in the known universe

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2. Space is completely silent

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1. Neutron stars can spin at a rate of 600 rotations per second

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