It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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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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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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