It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
808
Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
131
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.
4
If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
149
Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
986
One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
277
An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
82