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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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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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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