Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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