The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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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 light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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