There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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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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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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