If you were were exposed to outer space without a suit, after about 15 seconds, you would be blue, bloated, and in an unresponsive stupor, but not dead. If they got you back inside and gave you oxygen within about 90 seconds, you’d likely make a complete recovery with only minor injuries.
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If you put a mirror half a light year away from Earth and you looked at it through a telescope you could see a year into the Earth’s past.
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A man named Gregory W. Nemitz claimed ownership of Asteroid 433 Eros, on which NEAR Shoemaker landed in 2001. His company Orbital Development issued NASA a parking ticket for $20.
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There is a special two-seater suit for astronauts to have sex in space.
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There are stars in the known universe that are cold enough to be touched by the human hand.
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Gravity does some weird things to the universe. The power of gravity bends light, which means that the objects astronomers are looking at might not actually be where they appear to be. Scientists call this bizarreness gravitational lensing.
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Between the time it was discovered and the time it was unclassified as a planet, Pluto did not even complete one revolution around the sun.
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A Russian cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev, traveled 1/48 sec into the future.
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Ethyl Formate, the chemical that gives raspberries their flavor, has been found emanating from dust clouds in space.
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Space travel gives astronauts a feeling of being completely engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness. Edgar Mitchell described what it’s like to stand on the moon and look at the Earth: “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’ ” -
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While high profile scientists such as Carl Sagan have advocated the transmission of messages into outer space, Stephen Hawking has warned against it, suggesting that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on.
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Our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy in 4 billion years.
