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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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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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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