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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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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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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