It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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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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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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