Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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