The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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