The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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