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✨Striking photo of a shooting star behind the clouds. Outside of Sydney, Australia✨
#Fact
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#Fact
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✨There is a supermassive black hole right in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy that is 4 million times the mass of the Sun✨
#BlackHole
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#BlackHole
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✨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 system✨
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#Kepler-1649c
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✨Scientists cooled a nanoparticle to the quantum limit
The particle’s motion reached the lowest level allowed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle✨
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The particle’s motion reached the lowest level allowed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle✨
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✨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 States✨
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#Fact
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✨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 Way✨
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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 Way✨
#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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A. Moon has apparent magnitude of -4.18, Venus has magnitude of -6.32
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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
We had nine planets, now we have one more, this means we now have ten planets, right?
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A. True
71%
B. False
Many of the craters on the icy moons are very flat and shallow with a bowed-up center, in sharp contrast to rocky planets and moons. Some craters even seem to have been "erased" almost entirely. What accounts for the difference?
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A. Icy moons have less gravity
29%
B. Ice is less stiff than rock
32%
C. Tidal forces are stronger on icy moons
11%
D. Icy moons were only impacted by shallow, flat objects
Of the following elements found on the sun, which is the LEAST prevalent?
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29%
A. Oxygen
17%
B. Carbon
27%
C. Nitrogen
27%
D. Iron
Eris, like Pluto, is called a dwarf planet. However, they are not in the same region of the Solar System! Where is Eris located?
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A. In front of Mercury
16%
B. Hills Cloud
33%
C. Scattered Disc
37%
D. Asteroid Belt
When did the spacecraft Ulysses reach Jupiter?
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A. 1990
42%
B. 1989
24%
C. 1984
14%
D. 1992
Three of these moons belong to Uranus; which one belongs to Jupiter?
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17%
A. Juliet
17%
B. Titania
19%
C. Puck
47%
D. Europa
Which of the following moons belongs to Saturn?
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28%
A. Luna
31%
B. Ganymede
23%
C. Charon
18%
D. Dione
✨Black holes absorb dark matter, and over the billions of years since galaxies were first formed, this absorption of dark matter in black holes has very likely altered the population of galaxies from what we can observe today✨
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#BlackHole
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