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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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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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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