The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery 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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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