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Death Valley’s sailing stones slide across the desert floor on their own, leaving long trails

The Eye of the Sahara is a 25-mile bullseye of rock so vast it is easiest to see from orbit

The wandering albatross spreads the longest wings of any living bird, stretching up to eleven feet

Saturn’s moon Enceladus shoots geysers of water into space from a hidden ocean under its icy shell

Neutron stars cram more mass than the Sun into a city-sized ball where a teaspoon would weigh a billion tons

The star R136a1 shines millions of times brighter than the Sun and ranks among the most massive known

A tardigrade can survive being frozen, boiled and blasted with radiation in the vacuum of space

Greenland sharks can live more than 400 years, making them the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth

The immortal jellyfish can rewind its own body to a younger stage and start life over

The box jellyfish carries enough venom to stop a human heart in minutes and sees through 24 eyes

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a storm bigger than Earth that has raged for centuries and is now shrinking

Saturn’s north pole is wrapped in a bizarre six-sided storm wide enough to swallow four Earths

The asteroid Apophis will pass closer to Earth than some satellites in 2029

The Nazca Lines carve giant animals into the Peruvian desert that only make sense from the air

Lebanon’s Baalbek holds a single carved stone weighing more than 1,000 tons that was nevr moved

Beneath Turkey lies Derinkuyu, an underground city carved eighteen stories deep to hide thousands of people

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