In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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