Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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