It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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From the nitrogen in our DNA, to the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, to the carbon in our apple pies - all were made in the interiors of collapsing stars; we're all made of stardust.
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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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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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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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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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