The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
163
In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
14
Sound doesn't travel in space.
255
One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
277
If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
18
An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
9
In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean, causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
25