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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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 last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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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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