Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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