The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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