10 Things About The Solar System Your Teachers Never Told You

Remember those old space movies where spaceships had to maneuver through a bunch of asteroids scattered around and blocking the path of the ship? Well, that's not really true. The asteroid belt contains asteroids which are so far apart that you'd have to go hundreds of miles from one asteroid before you found another one. Here are 10 such amazing facts about the universe that you never learned in your school

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https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/5-8/features/F_Solar_System_Scale.html
http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons