Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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