Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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