It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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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 Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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 heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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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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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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