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2. If a star passes too close to a black hole, it can be torn apart.
3. The hottest planet in our solar system is Venus.
4. Our solar system is 4.57 billion years old.
5. Enceladus, one of Saturn’s smaller moons, reflects 90% of the Sun’s light.
6. The highest mountain discovered is the Olympus Mons, which is located on Mars.
7. The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) was the first celestial object identified as being spiral.
8. A light-year is the distance covered by light in a single year.
9. The Milky Way galaxy is 105,700 light-years wide.
10. The Sun weighs about 330,000 times more than Earth.
11. Footprints left on the Moon won’t disappear as there is no wind.
12. Because of lower gravity, a person who weighs 220 lbs on Earth would weigh 84 lbs on Mars.
13. There are 79 known moons orbiting Jupiter.
14. The Martian day is 24 hours 39 minutes and 35 seconds long.
15. NASA’s Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) found evidence of water on the Earth’s Moon.
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