The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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