Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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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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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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