A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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