Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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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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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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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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