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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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