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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to 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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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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