The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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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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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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