One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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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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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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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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