Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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 is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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