The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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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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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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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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