An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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