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Space is completely silent! In the vacuum of space, there is no air or atmosphere to carry sound waves, meaning space is utterly silent. So, despite what we see in movies, no one can hear anything in space!

Space is truly full of strange and amazing phenomena!

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Curious to find out some of the ways we can look out into Space? Learn more about the Hubble Space Telescope!

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A light-year is the distance that light travels in one year. Since light moves super fast (about 300,000 km per second), a light-year is about 9.46 trillion kilometers (5.88 trillion miles). It’s used to measure really big distances in space. The nearest star to us (besides the Sun) is Proxima Centauri, which is about 4.24 light-years away. If you could travel at the speed of light, it would take you 4.24 years to get there. But with current technology, our fastest spacecraft would take over 70,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri!

An astronomical unit (AU) is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun, about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles). It’s a handy way to measure distances within our solar system. For example, Jupiter is about 5 AU from the Sun, meaning it's five times farther from the Sun than Earth is.

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