Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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.
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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.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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