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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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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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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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