Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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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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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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