• The universe is full of diamonds: Scientists have discovered a planet that is essentially a giant diamond
• There is a planet made of ice that’s on fire: Gliese 436 b is a planet that is made up of ice, but it’s so close to its star that the ice is on fire
• There is a planet where it rains glass sideways: H189733 b is a planet where the winds blow at more than 5,400 mph, and it rains glass sideways
• The sun makes up 99.86% of the mass in our solar system: The sun is so massive that it makes up almost all of the mass in our solar system
• There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth: There are an estimated 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone, and there are billions of galaxies in the universe