Officially, only 3 people have died outside of Earth's atmosphere, but there are reports that during the space race, some Russian cosmonauts were lost in space...

Jupiter is so big, that even if you take all of the other planets in the solar system and combine them, there will still be space for them 1.5 times over.

The sun produces photon (light particles) all the time. Each photon is produced in the core of the sun, and it takes it 170,000 years to travel to the outer layer of the sun.

The same photon will then only need 8 minutes to reach the Earth.

Beyond the six visible planets, only two were discovered between 1781 and 1930 (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto). In the last twenty years, we have discovered over a thousand.

There is a minor planet (not really a planet) that has an orbit that is almost identical to Earth's, called "Cruithne". It is sometimes incorrectly called "Earth's second moon", but it doesn't really orbit the earth, but rather - the sun.



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