A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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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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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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