A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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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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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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