The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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