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A strong G3 geomagnetic storm is forecast to hit Earth Monday, pushing the northern lights as far south as Illinois and Oregon

By BeckhamLangford

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A day on Venus lasts longer than a full year on Venus

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

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Saturn is the only planet in the solar system light enough to float in water

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

By BeckhamLangford

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

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

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

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Light from the nearest star beyond the Sun takes more than four years to reach us

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Every star you can see with the naked eye sits inside our own Milky Way

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

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

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Sunlight takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

Astronomy

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

By BeckhamLangford

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