Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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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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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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