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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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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From the nitrogen in our DNA, to the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, to the carbon in our apple pies - all were made in the interiors of collapsing stars; we're all made of stardust.
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