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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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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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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