Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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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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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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