Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
8
On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
7
The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
4
The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
163
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.
4
A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
102
Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
120
Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
12