The sun is 330,330 times larger than the 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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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