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Sun's Mass Dominance: The Sun contains 99.86% of all the mass in our entire Solar System. Venusian Day Length: A day on Venus (one full rotation) lasts longer than its year (one revolution around the Sun). Sideways Planet: Uranus spins almost completely on its side, causing each pole to experience 42 years of continuous sunlight followed by 42 years of darkness. Valles Marineris: Mars is home to a canyon that is over 3,000 km (1,864 miles) long and 8 km (5 miles) deep, dwarfing Earth’s Grand Canyon. Volcanic Io: Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with plumes of sulfur rising hundreds of kilometers high. Sun Particle Emission: The Sun sheds about 1.3 trillion trillion trillion particles (roughly 1 billion kilograms of matter) every second. Titan's Atmosphere: Saturn’s moon Titan is the only moon in the solar system known to have a thick atmosphere and liquid lakes, though they are made of methane and ethane, not water. Moonless Wanderers: Mercury and Venus are the only two planets in our solar system that have no moons. Rings of Uranus: Voyager 2 discovered that Uranus has a system of dark, narrow rings, which were previously unknown. Neptune's Winds: Neptune has the strongest winds recorded in the solar system, reaching speeds up to 1,500 mph (roughly 2,400 km/h). Asteroid Belt Density: The asteroid belt is often depicted as crowded, but it is actually highly diffuse; the average distance between objects is hundreds of thousands of miles. Ceres' Composition: The dwarf planet Ceres makes up one-third of the entire mass of the asteroid belt. Pluto's Reclassification: Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 because it has not cleared its neighboring region of other objects. Solar System Edge: Voyager 2 reached interstellar space in 2018 after crossing the heliosphere, the bubble of magnetic fields created by the Sun. Future Solar Collision: In about 1 sextillion years, gravitational radiation will cause the Earth's orbit to decay, causing it to spiral into the Sun. STARS, GALAXIES, AND STELLAR EVOLUTION Hypervelocity Star: In 2017, astronomers observed a star (LP40 365) moving at 2 million mph, roughly four times faster than the Sun's orbit, likely propelled by a supernova. Stellar Birthplaces: Stars are born in nebula clouds, but they rarely form alone; most stars in our galaxy are in multiple-star systems. I RAN OUT OF ROOM

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