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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean, causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
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