The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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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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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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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