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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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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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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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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