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A comet’s tail always points away from the Sun, whichever way it travels

By BeckhamLangford

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Lightning superheats the air around it to roughly five times the surface temperature of the Sun

By BeckhamLangford

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Sunlight takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth

By BeckhamLangford

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The Sun burns through about 4 million tons of its own mass every second

By BeckhamLangford

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A year on Mercury lasts just 88 Earth days as it races around the Sun

By BeckhamLangford

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The Sun delivers more energy to Earth in an hour than humanity uses in a whole year

By BeckhamLangford

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Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System, hot enough to melt lead

By BeckhamLangford

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Saturn is light enough that it would float in a giant bathtub of water

By BeckhamLangford

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Jupiter is so massive the Solar System’s balance point sits outside the Sun

By BeckhamLangford

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A strong G3 geomagnetic storm is forecast to hit Earth Monday, dragging the northern lights into the northern US as a June 6 solar blast arrives

By BeckhamLangford

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Saturn is light enough to float in a giant bathtub of water

By BeckhamLangford

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Near AB Aurigae, the disk’s inner edge breaks orbital rules, a sign of giant planets forming within

By BeckhamLangford

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Sunspot region 4455 fired an M9.3, an M7.7 and an X1.0 flare inside 24 hours

By BeckhamLangford

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Lake Vostok lies sealed beneath nearly 4 kilometers of Antarctic ice

By BeckhamLangford

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The hidden Antarctic basin may be one of the largest cases of rotational crust-stretching ever found

By BeckhamLangford

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Jupiter is so massive the Solar System’s balance point sits just outside the Sun

By BeckhamLangford

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The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are drifting toward a future collision

By BeckhamLangford

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A G3 geomagnetic storm can drag auroras into the northern U.S. and scramble GPS for hours

By BeckhamLangford

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A teaspoon of neutron-star matter would weigh about 6 billion tons on Earth

By BeckhamLangford

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Every star you can see by eye sits inside the Milky Way

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