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Some parts of Mercury are hot enough to melt lead but cold enough to harbor ice simultaneously.
Due to Mercury's minimal atmosphere and slow rotation, temperatures can range from 427°C in direct sunlight to -180°C in permanently shadowed craters. This means there are locations where you could find both molten lead and water ice within a few kilometers of each other.
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The entire Milky Way smells like rum and tastes like raspberries.
Large clouds of ethyl formate, a chemical that gives raspberries their flavor and rum its smell, have been...
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Some stars are cool enough to touch.
Brown dwarfs, failed stars that never got massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion, can have surface temperatures as...
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There’s a planet made largely of diamonds.
55 Cancri e, a super-Earth about 40 light-years away, is likely made largely of carbon under such extreme...