In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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