The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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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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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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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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