The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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