Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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