It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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