The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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