Space is an amazing boundless expanse of beauty, wonder, and life, much of which is yet to be discovered. In our never-ending quest to learn more and more about everything about this universe and the galaxies within it, the great minds at institutions like NASA and the Herschel Space Observatory find brilliant nuggets of wisdom and insightful indications of how life, the universe, and everything works. These are 15 such awe-inspiring and astonishing tidbits.
1. Can you believe it?
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2. Then again, in space, size is all relative
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3. Despite its tininess, still so massive
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4. And just for reference
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5. Even without gravity, the sun is pretty heavy
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6. Should we be jealous?
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7. If we lived on Mars, we’d have 40 more minutes every day
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8. The difficulties of being the farthest from the sun
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9. Why was Uranus looking so blue? Because it had too much gas!
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10. That’s a long long winter
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11. I wish we could change this
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12. Trying to lose weight? Mars might be the place for you
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13. Perspective. Very important
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14. And we thought the Sun was big
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15. In case you ever accidentally drop your coffee in space
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