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The Sun loses 4 million tons of mass every second.
Through the process of nuclear fusion, the Sun converts mass into energy following Einstein's famous E=mc² equation. Despite this massive loss, it's so large that it can continue this process for another 5 billion years before running out of hydrogen fuel in its core.
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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...