It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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