A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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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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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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