Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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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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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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