Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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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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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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