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 heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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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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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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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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