Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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