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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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