Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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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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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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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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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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