It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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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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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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