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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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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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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 last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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