It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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