An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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