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What is the Smallest Star in the Universe?

The smallest star in the universe is a Red Dwarf; the smallest star possible. As we have yet to catalogue every star in the entire universe, the classification of “smallest star” would be like...

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What is the Smallest Planet in the Solar System?

The smallest planet in the solar system is Mercury, the closest planet to the sun. Up until now, there has been very little of footage taken of Mercury’s surface. Two NASA orbiters have been sent to...

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What is the Biggest Planet in the Solar System?

The biggest planet in our solar system is Jupiter. The diameter at the equator of Jupiter is 140,000 kilometers. All of the planets in our solar system could nicely fit inside Jupiter twice over!...

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What is the Biggest Telescope in the World?

By biggest, I am referring to the aperture, or the light gathering capacity of the telescope in question. The biggest telescope in the world is the Large Binocular Telescope located in southeastern...

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How Long Does It Take to Get to Mars?

I have seen differing numbers on this, but the two numbers that keep popping up are 260 days and 6 months. This is just for the one way trip at the time when Mars is closest to the Earth. Once you...

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What is the Difference Between an Asteroid and a Meteor

The Asteroid Mathilde Simply put, an asteroid is a body of rock or metal, of any size orbiting the sun. The largest known asteroid is Ceres, the largest member of the asteroid belt and the smallest...

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What is the Difference Between Astronomy and Astrology?

Crab Nebula taken by the Hubble Telescope For two words so similar, they could hardly be more different in meaning. Astronomy is the study of celestial objects; in short, objects outside the Earth’s...

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What is the Difference Between PM and AM?

TweetThe World’s Oldest running clock; the Astronomical Clock is located in Prague, Czech Republic. Well; there is my sarcastic answer: pm is when I drink wine and am is when I drink coffee or “does AM...

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