It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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