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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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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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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From the nitrogen in our DNA, to the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, to the carbon in our apple pies - all were made in the interiors of collapsing stars; we're all made of stardust.
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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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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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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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