Sound doesn't travel in space.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
46
An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
82
The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
13
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.
4
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.
7
Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
358
If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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