The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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