There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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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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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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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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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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