When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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