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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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 the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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 light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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