The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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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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