Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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