There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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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 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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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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