On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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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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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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