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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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