A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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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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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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