Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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