Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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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 would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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