Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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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 is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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