It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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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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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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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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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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