The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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 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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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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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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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