If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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