It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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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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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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