Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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