It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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