Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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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 sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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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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