Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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 weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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