Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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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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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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