A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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