The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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