It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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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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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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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