The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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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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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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