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Stars & Galaxies Facts


The cosmic microwave background is ~2.7 K
A neutron star is only about 20 kilometers across
A supernova can briefly outshine its whole galaxy
A white dwarf can pack a Sun’s mass into an Earth-sized ball
The cosmic microwave background is leftover light from the Big Bang
Nothing can escape once past a black hole’s event horizon
The Chandrasekhar limit is about 1.4 solar masses
The Sun converts about 4 million tons of mass to energy every second
A teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh about 6 billion tons
Betelgeuse could swallow the orbit of Mars
Sagittarius A* weighs about 4 million Suns
The Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across
The Sun holds about 99.8% of the solar system’s mass
The observable universe is about 93 billion light-years across
There are about 10²² to 10²⁴ stars in the observable universe
Proxima Centauri is the nearest star beyond our Sun
The Milky Way and Andromeda are on a collision course
Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth
One light-year is about 9.5 trillion kilometers
A Fermi paradox asks: where is everybody?

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