A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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 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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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 last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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