The Moon is moving away from Earth at a speed of about 1.5 inches per year
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Spare a thought for the constellations that never made it into the official list... these include Machina Electrca (the electricity generator), Officina Typographica (The printing Office), and Turdus Solitarius (the solitary thrush)
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Despite being closest to the sun, Mercury is not the hottest planet. The hottest planet is Venus (at 462 Celsius)
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The spinning neutron star at the heart of the crab Nebula is just 10 kilometers wide, and 50 trillion times denser than lead.
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If you would place a pinhead sized piece of the Sun on the Earth you would die from standing within 145 km (90 miles) from it.
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One of Jupiter's moon is believed to grow and shrink because of the water beneath its frozen surface.
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The tarantula nebula (NGC 2070) is Located in the eastern portion of the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is the only extra-galactic Nebula that is visible to the naked-eye. If NGC 2070 were as close as the Orion Nebula (M42), it would take up the entire constellation of Orion and be bright enough to cast shadow.
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