Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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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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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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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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