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At highway speed driving straight up, you would reach space in under an hour

By BeckhamLangford

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Light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth

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The Sun burns through about 4 million tons of its own mass every second

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Jupiter is so massive that every other planet could fit inside it

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A June 6 solar blast is set to slam into Earth’s magnetic field Monday, with a second, weaker storm following Tuesday

By BeckhamLangford

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A single bolt of lightning heats the air around it to about 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, five times hotter than the surface of the Sun

By BeckhamLangford

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Space is completely silent, because there is no air to carry sound

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The Sun holds about 99.8% of all the mass in the solar system

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Neutron stars spin so fast that some complete hundreds of full rotations every second

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Alaska’s Great Sitkin volcano keeps oozing lava inside its summit crater, holding the mountain at an orange alert for passing jets

By BeckhamLangford

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Apollo astronauts’ footprints may stay on the Moon almost unchanged, since there is no wind to erase them

By BeckhamLangford

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A strong G3 geomagnetic storm is forecast to hit Earth Monday, pushing the northern lights as far south as Illinois and Oregon

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A day on Venus lasts longer than a full year on Venus

By BeckhamLangford

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There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth

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Saturn is the only planet in the solar system light enough to float in water

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A teaspoon of neutron-star material would weigh about 6 billion tons on Earth

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A teaspoon of neutron-star matter would weigh about 6 billion tons on Earth

By BeckhamLangford

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The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are slowly drifting toward a future collision

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Light from the nearest star beyond the Sun takes more than four years to reach us

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Every star you can see with the naked eye sits inside our own Milky Way

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