The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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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 mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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