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 center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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