Space Facts

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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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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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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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