There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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