A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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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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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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