A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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