Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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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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