Random Space Facts

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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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    The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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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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    Anti-Comet Pills
    Anti-Comet Pills
    In 1910, as Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet, people bought "Anti-Comet Pills", special "comet umbrellas", and gas masks, because there was public hysteria that all life on Earth would be destroyed by gas - called cyanogen - that was detected in the tail.
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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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    Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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    It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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