Facts on Astronomy:
The Andromeda galaxy is actually 2.3 millions of years away which mean that the light from the galaxy took so long to reach you and that is why you can see it.

The light from the sun takes only eight minutes to reach us, and you see the sun eight minutes ago.

The earth is slightly squashed at the poles and it is not spherical at all.

There are several more constellations which have not been declared officially like the Machine Electrica and the Offciana Typographica.

When Galileo first saw Saturn from his telescope he said that the planet has ears and then much later an astronomer called Christian Huygens said that it had rings. If Saturn is put in water, it would float as the density of the entire planet is lesser than water.

Only a tea spoon full of Neutron stars would weight as much as 112 million tons.

Jupiter is the heaviest planet of all and it weighs much more than all the planets put together.

Even if the night is clear and the sky is loaded with stars humans can still only see three thousand stars. There are trillions of them in our galaxy alone.

Mount Olympus is the tallest mountain in the Solar System and it is located on mars and it ranges to the heights of fifteen miles and that is three times of what Mount Everest is. It is as big as Spain.

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