The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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