It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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