The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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