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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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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