Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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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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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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