It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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