There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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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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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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