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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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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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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