A comet's tail always points away from 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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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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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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