A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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