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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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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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