The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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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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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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