Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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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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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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