The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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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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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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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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