Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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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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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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