It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
569
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.
6
There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
5
The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
163
Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
16
If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
808