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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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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