Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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