The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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