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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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