If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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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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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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