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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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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