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Astronomy

The Webb telescope found methane on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a first for any visitor from another star

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Earth quietly sweeps up tens of tons of space dust every single day

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

The Sun is so large that about 1.3 million Earths could fit inside it

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Euclid’s next big sky-survey data drop lands June 24, mapping the crowded heart of the Milky Way

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Venus spins backward compared with nearly every other planet in the solar system

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

There are more trees on Earth, roughly 3 trillion, than stars in the Milky Way

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

The coldest known place in the universe is the Boomerang Nebula, just above absolute zero

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

The coldest known place in the universe is the Boomerang Nebula, just above absolute zero

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Lightning strikes somewhere on Earth about 8 million times a day

By BeckhamLangford

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A bolt of lightning is roughly five times hotter than the surface of the Sun

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Mount Everest grows a few millimeters taller each year as two plates keep colliding

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Astronomy

Saturn now has at least 146 known moons, more than any other planet

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Astronomy

There may be more than 100 billion planets in the Milky Way alone

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Saturn is so light it would float if you could find an ocean big enough

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Astronomy

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

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Astronomy

Neutron stars are so dense that a sugar-cube of their matter would weigh billions of tons

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

The observable universe stretches roughly 93 billion light-years across

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Astronomy

Light from the Sun takes about eight minutes and twenty seconds to reach us

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Earth’s atmosphere has no sharp edge; it simply fades into space

By BeckhamLangford

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