If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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