Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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