A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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