The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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