Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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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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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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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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