It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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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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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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