It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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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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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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