It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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