Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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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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