In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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