The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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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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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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