The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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