French astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon.

A caterpillar grows roughly 27,000 times its size when it first emerges as an egg.

Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.

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