Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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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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