It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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 Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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