There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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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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