A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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