There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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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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