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.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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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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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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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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