In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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