Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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