Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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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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