Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
17
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.
9
When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
31
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.
4
Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
46
Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
358
If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
18