A comet's tail always points away from 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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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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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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