The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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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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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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