The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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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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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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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!
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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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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