Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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There are two golf balls sitting on the 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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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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