There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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