It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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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