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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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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