A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
88
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.
4
The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
131
An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
82
Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
6
If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
10
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
310