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 Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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 lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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