More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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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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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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