Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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