The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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