The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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