Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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