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10 Interesting Facts About Black Holes

Of all the strange objects that exist in the Universe, black holes are without doubt the strangest. In 1971, Cygnus X-1, the first physical black hole ever discovered, may have moved black holes away from [...]
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10 Interesting Facts about Ganymede

Ganymede is the biggest satellite in the solar system, and also the biggest object in the solar system that does not have a substantial atmosphere. Discovered by Galileo in January of the year 1610 along [...]
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10 Interesting Facts about the Missions to Venus

Despite being named after a goddess of love and beauty, Venus is a harsh, hellish place that does not inspire warm and fuzzy feelings. Temperatures on its surface are hot enough to melt lead, and [...]
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10 Beautiful Star Clusters for Stargazers

Star clusters represent distinct steps in the evolution of the Universe. On the one hand, globular clusters can be thought of as “fossils”, in the sense that in many cases, they are all that remain [...]
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Top 10 Strangest Galaxies In The Universe

A galaxy refers to a huge system of stars, planets, gas, and dust that are gravitationally bound together. Our solar system, for instance, is part of the Milky Way galaxy, which is though to contain [...]
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10 Interesting Facts about Europa

Europa is the smallest of Jupiters’ Galilean moons, and while it is only slightly smaller than our own moon, it is nevertheless the 15th biggest object in the solar system, and more massive than all [...]
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Interesting Quotes By Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the most influential physicist of the 20th century, and was born in Germany to a Jewish family, although he later became a Swiss citizen (1901) and then a U.S. citizen in [...]
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Interesting Facts About Orion

Winter Is Coming Orion can be seen by observers located between +85° and -75° of latitude, with the constellation’s appearance at night signalling that winter is coming. That is at least true from mid-northern latitudes [...]
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List of 10 Brightest Stars in The Night Sky

With the naked eye, the stars may all appear to be similar, and nothing more than pinholes in the sky, but the reality is that the stars come in a wide, almost stupefying range of [...]
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10 Interesting Facts about Blue Giant Stars

Since there is no clear definition of blue giant stars, the term is frequently applied to any hot, massive star, albeit erroneously in some cases. For the most part though, blue giant stars fall into [...]