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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NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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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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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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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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