The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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