The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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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