Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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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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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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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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