It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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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 light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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