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The distance of Earth from the Sun…

April 18, 2022April 18, 2022Weirdo

The distance of Earth from the Sun is about 108 times the diameter of the Sun. Likewise, the distance between the Earth and the Moon is also about 108 times the diameter of the Moon.

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Viganella, a city in Italy where the sun…

August 16, 2021August 16, 2021Weirdo

Viganella, a city in Italy where the sun doesn’t rise for three months a year, has a mirror located on a mountain to reflect the sunlight.

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The sun looks like caramel corn

January 31, 2020January 31, 2020Weirdo

A new telescope built to study the Sun has released its first images. They show the surface of the Sun in the most exquisite detail we’ve ever seen – revealing convection granules the size of Texas, and tiny magnetic features – the roots of fields that extend far into space.

via sciencealert.com

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In an unbelievable coincidence, the moon…

October 4, 2019Weirdo

In an unbelievable coincidence, the moon is exactly four hundred times smaller than the Sun but four hundred times closer to the Earth, so that both the Sun and the Moon appear to be precisely the same size in the sky – which gives us the phenomenon we call a total eclipse.

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Rjukan sun

December 3, 2017Weirdo

There’s a town in Norway (Rjukan) that’s in shadow for three full months of the year. As a result, townspeople have built giant mirrors on the mountainside to reflect natural light on their homes.

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Even though the sun won’t die…

October 6, 2017Weirdo

Even though the sun won’t die for another 5 billion years, humans only have about 1 billion years left on Earth because the sun will change and become hot enough to boil and evaporate our oceans.

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There is a star in our galaxy that is 5 billion…

September 13, 2015Weirdo

There is a star in our galaxy that is 5 billion times volume of our sun.

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Every second of every day, the sun converts 700 million tons of hydrogen into 695…

March 29, 2015March 29, 2015Weirdo

Every second of every day, the sun converts 700 million tons of hydrogen into 695 million tons of helium. The other 5 million tons becomes energy. Every second.

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The largest known star is 4,982,686,912 times bigger…

December 17, 2014Weirdo

The largest known star is 4,982,686,912 times bigger than the sun, and is only 9,500 light-years away. If placed at the center of the Solar System, its photosphere would engulf the orbit of Jupiter, although the radius is not known for certain and may be larger than the orbit of Saturn.

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The sun’s core is so hot that a piece of it the size of a pinhead…

November 25, 2014November 25, 2014Weirdo

The sun’s core is so hot that a piece of it the size of a pinhead would give off enough heat to kill a person 100 miles away.

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