Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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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 would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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