An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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