A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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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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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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