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.
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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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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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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 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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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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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