The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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