It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
18
If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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