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Saturn’s moon Mimas looks exactly like the Death Star.
Mimas has a large impact crater called Herschel that makes it look remarkably similar to the Death Star from Star Wars. The crater is 80 miles wide and has a central peak 3.5 miles high. The impact that created it nearly shattered the moon, leaving fractures on the opposite side.
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A spoonful of a white dwarf star would weigh several tons.
White dwarfs are the remnants of stars like our Sun after they've exhausted their nuclear fuel. They're incredibly...
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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...