A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the 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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