Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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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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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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