There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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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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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 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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