The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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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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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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