It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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.
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