An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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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 center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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