A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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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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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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