In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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