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10 Interesting Facts about Neutron Stars

Simply put, a neutron star is the collapsed and highly compressed remains of a relatively massive star that died in a supernova event. Neutron stars are also the smallest stars known to exist, with their [...]
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Top Theories on How the Moon Formed

The Moon has been a constant source of wonder and fascination throughout mankind’s’ history, but despite being located a mere 238,900 miles or 1.28 light-seconds away, we know less about it and how it came [...]
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Is Time Travel To The Past Theoretically Possible?

Is time travel possible? People who say that that it is not should think again. After all, we’re all time travelers, scooting along through the space-time continuum at a rate of one second per second. [...]
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10 Easy Night Sky Targets for Binoculars

The purpose of this list is to show that you do not always need a telescope to observe literally thousands of spectacular deep sky objects (DSOs) in the night sky. In most cases, the objects [...]
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10 Interesting Facts About Our Sun

1) Classified As A Yellow Dwarf The Sun is classified as a G-type yellow dwarf (G2V), which is a little misleading as stars in this sequence can vary in color from yellow for cooler stars, [...]
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10 Interesting Facts about Red Giant Stars

While red giant stars are among the biggest stars in the Universe, they were not born that way. Red giants are for the most part normal main-sequence stars that have exhausted their supply of hydrogen, [...]
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10 Interesting Facts about Io

Of Jupiter’s Galilean moons, Io is the closest to the planet at an average distance of 422,000 km (262,219 miles), and is the moon with the highest density. It is also the solar system object [...]
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15 Interesting Andromeda Galaxy Facts

Part of Local Group If it were possible to travel anywhere in the galaxy, the next step would be to visit our 54 or so neighbouring minor galaxies, most of them dwarfs, that surround the [...]
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Top 10 Facts About The Solar System

Our solar system is a place of infinite beauty consisting of the Sun and all the other astronomical objects that are gravitationally bound to it. You would then have to travel a further 4.24 light-years [...]
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10 Interesting Facts about the Kuiper Belt

Also known as the Edgeworth–Kuiper belt, this structure extends from just beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune to a distance of roughly 50-55 astronomical units from the Sun. Composed primarily of small icy bodies [...]