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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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