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The immensity of space is quite literally incomprehensible. The more our technology improves, the more we learn about space and the better we can observe it. Throughout the decades of studying space, we have discovered scientific concepts that were never before even theorized, and proven (or disproven) other theories. The astonishing truth is that no matter how much we’ve been staring at it, we haven’t been able to see more than a tiny bit of the universe itself. If that got your curiousity juices flowing – check out these 20 great space facts:

On a clear night, you can see a whole other galaxy with the naked eye - Andromeda, our closest galactic neighbor (only 2.2 million light years away).

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The core of a star reaches 16 million degrees Celsius (28,800,000 Fahrenheit). To understand how hot that is, imagine a single grain of sand that is that hot - it would be enough to kill anything around it in a 150km (95 miles).

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Combine all the planets, moons, comets and asteroids in the solar system and you'll reach 0.14% of the mass of the sun alone.

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If you were staring at Jupiter in the last 200 years, you'd be able to see a giant "eye" moving across it. That "eye" is actually a storm, about 40,000Km (24,850 miles) in diameter. And if you need some perspective - the Earth would fit in that storm 3 times.

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Since there is no atmosphere on the moon, nothing other than the occasional space-rock disturbs its surface. That means that the footprints left by the Apollo 11 astronauts back in 1969 are still there.

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Even though it's smaller than Earth, Mars is the home of the solar system's largest volcano, named Olympus Mons (Mount Olympus). The mountain is 60Km (37 miles) wide and 21Km (13 miles) in height, making it roughly the size of Ireland...



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