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TIL people on the Northern Hemisphere sees the Moon upside down and people on the Equator sees the Moon changing its top and bottom according to moonrise and moonset
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TIL- "The Pale Blue Dot" photo was taken on February 14, 1990 by Voyager 1 nearly 4 billion miles away from our Earth. "That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."
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TIL that in 2012, the National Reconnaissance Organization (NRO) gifted NASA two space telescopes with capabilities exceeding that of the Hubble telescope. For example, the telescopes have shorter focal lengths, which in turn gives them a field of view that is 100x larger than Hubble.