The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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