It 'snows' metal on Venus.
13
It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
569
An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
9
Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
15
It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
6
One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
277
The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
10