The coldest known place in the universe is the Boomerang Nebula, which has a temperature of -458 degrees Fahrenheit (-272 degrees Celsius).
There is a giant cloud of alcohol in Sagittarius B, a molecular cloud located near the center of the Milky Way. It contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
The International Space Station orbits the Earth at a speed of about 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometers per hour), which means it travels around the Earth in about 90 minutes.
The highest mountain in the solar system is Olympus Mons, a volcano on Mars. It's about 3 times taller than Mount Everest and the largest volcano in the solar system.
The largest known structure in the universe is the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, a cluster of galaxies located about 10 billion light-years away from Earth. It's about 10 billion light-years long and contains more than 10,000 galaxies.
There is a black hole in the galaxy IC 1101 that is so large it has a mass of about 40 billion times that of our sun.
The Apollo astronauts left behind more than just footprints on the moon. They also left a variety of objects, including flags, lunar rovers, and even bags of human waste.
The atmosphere of Venus is so hot that lead would melt on its surface.
There is a planet in the constellation Draco called Kepler-16b that orbits two stars. It's also known as Tatooine, after the fictional planet from Star Wars.
The center of the Milky Way smells like rum and tastes like raspberries, according to astronomers who detected a compound called ethyl formate in the galactic center.
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