The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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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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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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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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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