The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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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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