The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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