Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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