Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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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