An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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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 Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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