33 light years away there is an exoplanet completely covered in burning ice.
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A day on Venus is longer than a year.
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About 275 million new stars are born everyday.
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According to astronauts, space smells like seared steak, hot metal, and welding fumes.
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According to researchers, the center of our galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum.
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Each year the moon moves 3.8 cm further from the Earth.
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Earth has over 8,000 pieces of space junk orbiting around it.
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Earth’s rotation is slowing at a rate of about 17 milliseconds a century.
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Far beyond Neptune, there may be an object the size of Earth orbiting the sun.
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If you could compress the Earth down to the size of a marble, it would collapse on itself and become a black hole.
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If you could put Saturn in a bathtub it would float.
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If you cry in space the tears just stick to your face. The first astronaut to test this was a total pussy.
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It recently captured the most distant photograph of Earth.
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It takes a photon, on average, 170,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface.
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It’s also so wide that if you were standing on the edge of its caldera, the base of the volcano would be over the horizon.
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In comparison, the largest planet on Mars is larger than Mount Everest and Mauna Kea combined.
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One spoonful of matter from a neutron star would weigh about a billion tons.
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The Milky Way galaxy has four spiral arms, not two as depicted in pop culture.
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The sun makes up 99% of the mass of the solar system.
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The Voyager 1 spacecraft is the most distant human-made object from Earth.
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Then it takes just 8 minutes from the suns surface to your eyes.
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There is a diamond floating our galaxy that is bigger than Earth.
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There is a planet called HD189733b where it rains glass sideways.
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There’s a gas cloud in the constellation of Aquila that contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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