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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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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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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