Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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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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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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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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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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