There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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