The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way 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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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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