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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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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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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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