Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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