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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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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