One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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 lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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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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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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