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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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