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Fact 1 A compost heap generates as much energy as the Sun! |
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Fact 2 Venus smells like rotten eggs |
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Fact 3 You are made of Stardust |
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Fact 4 Footprints on the Moon will last for millions of years |
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Fact 5 Oceans of liquid diamond may exist on Neptune |
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Fact 6 Astronauts have feet-as soft as babies |
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Fact 7 Space is; completely silent |
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Fact 8 Hot stars are blue, cold stars are red our taps are wrong! |
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Fact 9 Some stars spin 700 times per second |
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Fact 10 Venus and Uranus are upside down |
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Fact 11 Saturn is. not the only planet with rings |
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Fact 12 Dark sunspots are as bright as the full Moon |
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Fact 13 Metal sticks together in space |
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Fact 14 Astronauts cannot burp in space |
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Fact 15 The days really are getting longer |
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Fact 16 Neptune is home to the fastest winds in the Solar System |
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Fact 17 There is no dark side to the Moon |
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Fact 18 Black holes are not actually holes! |
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Fact 19 Clusters of galaxies are used as gigantic cosmic telescopes |
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Fact 20 Mercury is the fastest planet |
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Fact 21 On Mars you need flip flops and a hat |
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Fact 22 The moons of Jupiter to Id us the speed of light |
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Fact 23 Earth is travelling through space at 225 km per second |
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52 | (2) |
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Fact 24 The light from stars-tell astronomers what the Universe is made of |
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Fact 25 Space agencies use planets to steer spacecraft around the Solar System |
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Fact 26 Shepherd's keep the rings of Saturn in order |
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58 | (2) |
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Fact 27 The Universe is expanding faster now than in the past |
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Fact 28 Zero gravity makes copulation rather tricky |
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Fact 29 The-sight of a larger than, usual Moon rising is just an illusion |
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Fact 30 Twinkle twinkle little star! Stars do not twinkle |
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Fact 31 Europa, a moon of Jupiter could harbour alien life |
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Fact 32 Pluto is no longer a planet |
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Fact 33 The first spacewalk nearly ended in tragedy |
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Fact 34 The Andromeda galaxy-is on a collision course with the Milky Way |
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Fact 35 A Martian volcano is almost three times the size of Mount Everest |
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74 | (2) |
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Fact 36 The telescope was invented by an optician |
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Fact 37 Astronomers use black and white cameras to take colour pictures |
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Fact 38 There are thousands of planets.beyond our Solar System |
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Fact 39 There is a hurricane on Jupiter nearly three times the size of Earth |
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Fact 40 If you fell into a black hole you would be stretched like spaghetti |
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Fact 41 There are clouds of water floating in space |
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Fact 42 It is very likely that the Sun will one day swallow up the Earth |
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Fact 43 Shooting stars are not stars at all |
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Fact 44 Inhabitants of Saturn could enjoy the northern lights too |
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Fact 45 Comets have two tails |
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Fact 46 The, Moon was once part of Earth |
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Fact 47 To find black holes, astronomers look for the brightest objects in the night sky |
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Fact 48 There are three laws which govern the motion of the planets |
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Fact 49 The most common star is a red dwarf |
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Fact 50 The Kessler effect suggests one day we may get cut off from space! |
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Fact 51 The first telescope mirrors used arsenic |
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Fact 52 A gas cloud contains enough alcohol for everyone for a billion years |
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Fact 53 Our eyes are rubbish colour detectors in the dark |
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Fact 54 Light takes around one million years to reach us from the core of the Sun |
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Fact 55 A hurricane force wind is just a breeze on Mars |
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Fact 56 An astronaut in space would last about 15 seconds without a spacesuit |
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Fact 57 Travel fast to stay young |
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Fact 58 The sky has co-ordinates just like latitude and longitude |
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Fact 59 The Grand Canyon is dwarfed by the largest valley in the Solar System |
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Fact 60 Earth is closer to the Sun in winter |
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114 | (2) |
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Fact 61 There is water on the Moon |
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Fact 62 Dark matter exists but we do not know what it is |
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Fact 63 Studying the light from galaxies tells us how fast they are moving |
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Fact 64 The largest single mirror telescope has a mirror 8.2m across |
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Fact 65 Pigeon droppings were once mistakenly identified to explain the radiation from the Big Bang |
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Fact 66 Saturn's moon Mimas looks like the Death Star from Star Wars |
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Fact 67 Neptune was first discovered by mathematics |
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Fact 68 Meteorites are not hot! |
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Fact 69 The Sun looks white in space |
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Fact 70 Voyager 1 will reach its destination in 40,000 years |
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Fact 71 We are sending signals into outer space and aliens could be listening |
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Fact 72 Mercury is shrinking! |
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Fact 73 The Hubble Space Telescope was launched with the wrong mirror |
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Fact 74 A veritable menagerie of animals have been sent into space |
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Fact 75 The movement of the Earth, allows astronomers to measure distances in space |
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Fact 76 Stars do not live forever |
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Fact 77 The different shapes of galaxies relate to their evolutionary stage |
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Fact 78 The rotation of the Sun is not uniform |
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Fact 79 Some variable stars can tell us how far away they are |
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Fact 80 Spacecraft docking in space is a tricky manoeuvre |
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Fact 81 The Universe is 92 billion light years across |
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Fact 82 In 1977 astronomers thought they had detected an alien radio signal |
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Fact 83 Gamma ray bursts are among the most powerful explosions in the Universe |
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Fact 84 The constellations of today will not be recognisable in a hundred thousand years |
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Fact 85 VY Canis Majoris is the largest known star in the Universe |
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Fact 86 Jupiter is a failed star |
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158 | (2) |
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Fact 87 Dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate |
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Fact 88 Jupiter is the Solar System's vacuum cleaner |
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Fact 89 Polaris is the north pole star but in 12,000 years it will be replaced by Vega |
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Fact 90 The night sky in a globular -- cluster would be glittering with thousands of bright stars |
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Fact 91 Eratosthenes measured the circumference of Earth in 240bc |
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Fact 92 A star called Lucy is a large cosmic diamond |
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Fact 93 Lunar eclipses cause massive temperature drops on the Moon |
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Fact 94 A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs 10 million tonnes |
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Fact 95 The Pistol Star is.10 million times brighter than the Sun |
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Fact 96 The atmosphere of the Sun is hotter than its visible surface |
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Fact 97 Some rocket engines produce enough thrust to lift a sheet of A4 paper! |
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Fact 98 The Sun is a very faint star! |
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Fact 99 Astronomers have their very own tape measures |
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Fact 100 A Martian meteorite has the fossilised building blocks of life inside it |
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Fact 101 There are alien lakes on Saturn's moon Titan |
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