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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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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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 sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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