The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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