It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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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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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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