Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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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 center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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