The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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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 comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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