The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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