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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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31 |
Sometimes Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune. |
Science > Astronomy |
05/09/10 |
|
32 |
Earth has a 23.5 degree tilt. |
Science > Astronomy |
05/09/10 |
|
33 |
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter in 1994. |
Science > Astronomy |
11/19/10 |
|
34 |
The center of the Andromeda Galaxy is a supermassive black hole. |
Science > Astronomy |
12/01/10 |
|
35 |
Betelgeuse is also known as Alpha Orionis. |
Science > Astronomy |
06/13/11 |
|
36 |
Venus' axial tilt is 177.3 degrees, the reason for its seemingly retrograde rotation. |
Science > Astronomy |
11/08/11 |
|
37 |
Proxima Centauri is discovered in 1915. |
Science > Astronomy |
02/11/12 |
|
38 |
Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun. |
Science > Astronomy |
04/07/12 |
|
39 |
Long-period comets usually come from the Oort Cloud. |
Science > Astronomy |
08/27/12 |
|
40 |
Puck was discovered by Voyager 2 in 1985. |
Science > Astronomy |
04/10/17 |
|
41 |
The term "black hole" was coined by John Wheeler in 1967. |
Science > Astronomy |
09/04/20 |
|
42 |
Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun. |
Science > Astronomy |
08/11/23 |
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