Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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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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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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