Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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