Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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