Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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