Astronomy Facts: Every year the sun evaporates 100,000 cubic miles of water from Earth, If a piece of the sun the size of a pinhead were to be placed on Earth, you could not safely stand within 90 miles of it, Half-a-billionth of the energy released by the sun reaches the Earth, The planet is less dense than water.

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