If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
18
Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
16
There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
349
Sound doesn't travel in space.
255
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.
12
Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
6
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.
4
There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
5