It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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 center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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