The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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