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Pluto is about half as wide as the United States

Pluto is only about 1,400 miles wide, roughly half the width of the United States.

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It lies about 3.6 billion miles from the Sun. One day on Pluto takes about 153 hours, and a single orbit takes 248 years.

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A light-year is about 6 trillion miles

A light-year is the distance light travels in one Earth year, about 6 trillion miles.

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A day on Venus is longer than its year

Venus takes about 243 Earth days to rotate once but only about 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun.

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The space station sees about 16 sunrises a day

The International Space Station circles Earth roughly every 90 minutes, giving its crew about 16 sunrises and sunsets in 24 hours.

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