It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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