Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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