If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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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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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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