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Astronauts grow taller in space.
Without Earth's gravity compressing their spines, astronauts can grow up to 3 inches taller during long space missions. This extra height is temporary, and they return to their normal height after coming back to Earth. This effect can cause back pain and makes it important to account for in spacecraft design.
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Some planets orbit their stars in figure-eight patterns.
In binary star systems, planets can follow complex figure-eight orbital patterns due to the gravitational influence of both...
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Jupiter’s moon Io has lakes of liquid sulfur.
Due to intense tidal heating from Jupiter, Io has lakes of molten sulfur on its surface that can...
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There’s a planet where it snows titanium dioxide.
On Kepler-13Ab, a planet 1,730 light-years from Earth, it snows titanium dioxide - the same compound used in...