It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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