A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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