It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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