β¨In 1972, US blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 time powerful than Hiroshimaβ¨
#Fact
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#Fact
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β¨The black hole at the centre of the Sombrero Galaxy weighs in at 1 billion times that of the Sun, one of the most massive black holes ever measuredβ¨
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#BlackHole
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β¨If two pieces same types of metals touch in space, they will bond and be permanently stuck togetherβ¨
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#SpaceFact
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β¨Striking photo of a shooting star behind the clouds. Outside of Sydney, Australiaβ¨
#Fact
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#Fact
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β¨There is a supermassive black hole right in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy that is 4 million times the mass of the Sunβ¨
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#BlackHole
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β¨Kepler-1649c is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star Kepler-1649. It is located 300 light years from Earth. In 2020, Jeff Coughlin, the director of SETI's K2 Science Office, described it as the most "similar planet to Earth" found so far by the Kepler Space Telescope. The exoplanet was identified as a rocky planet by NASA and is very similar to Earth in terms of size, with a radius 1.06 times that of Earth. Kepler-1649c orbits its host star Kepler-1649, an M-Type red dwarf. It orbits within the habitable zone of its star systemβ¨
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#Kepler-1649c
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β¨Scientists cooled a nanoparticle to the quantum limit
The particleβs motion reached the lowest level allowed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principleβ¨
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The particleβs motion reached the lowest level allowed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principleβ¨
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β¨If the Sun was to be scaled down to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky Way would be the size of the continental United Statesβ¨
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#Fact
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β¨Based on Kepler Mission data, there could be as
many as 40 billion Earth-sized Planets orbiting
in the habitable zone of Sub-like stars and Red
Dwarfs in the Milky Wayβ¨
#Fact
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many as 40 billion Earth-sized Planets orbiting
in the habitable zone of Sub-like stars and Red
Dwarfs in the Milky Wayβ¨
#Fact
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Arizona's Grand Canyon is longer than Mars' Valles Marineris.
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59%
A. True
41%
B. False
Venus sure is bright... On a clear night you can usually distinguish it from the stars. Hey, you know another bright thing in the sky? The full moon. I wonder which is brighter? Hmmm... You decide. (Remember, negative numbers are brighter)
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28%
A. Moon has apparent magnitude of -4.18, Venus has magnitude of -6.32
39%
B. Moon has apparent magnitude of almost -13.00, Venus has magnitude of -4.9
21%
C. Moon has apparent magnitude of .89, Venus has magnitude of -8.235
11%
D. Moon has apparent magnitude of -6.54, Venus has magnitude of -5.12