It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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