You can remember the value of Pi (3.1415926) by counting each word's letters in "May I have a large container of coffee?

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142857 is a cyclic number, i.e., its digits are rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. Like this:
142857 142857 142857 142857 142857 142857 1 5 4 6 2 3 = = = = = = 142857 7 14285 57 1428 857 142 2857 14 42857 1

Astronomy Facts & Trivia

Everything moves: Planets move within the Solar System, which moves within Milky Way Galaxy, which moves within The Local Group of Galaxies, of modern which moves towards Virgo constellations is Hydra. Submitted by: Chris Cluster. Submitted by: Nathan Otoo - United States Jimms Earth is the only planet not named after a Roman or Greek god. Submitted by: Jacob -

smallest of modern constellations, with only 4 bright stars. Submitted by: Chris Jimms

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Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate clockwise (retrograde rotation.) moon Titan has Submitted by: Yvonna May hundreds of times more oil and natural gas than all the known reserves on Earth. Interstellar space is not All 27 of Uranus complete vacuum: there are a few hydrogen moons are named after atoms per cubic William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope characters. centimeter. Submitted Submitted by: Jacob Richard by: Sruthi R Coimbatore, India - Tempe, Arizona, United States If a pinhead-size piece of the Sun were placed on Earth, one would have to stand as far as 145 kilometers (90 With 63 moons, miles) away to be safe. Jupiter has the largest number Submitted by: Sruthi R of moons. Submitted by: Moi - Coimbatore, India - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jupiter, Saturn, "Lucy" in constellation Centaurus is actually a Uranus and Neptune are made up of just gas with no huge cosmic diamond of 10 billion trillion solid surface to land on. Submitted by: Angel - United trillion carats. Submitted by: Sruthi R States - Coimbatore, India

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on Mercury varies so extremely that it will rise up to 430C during the day and drop as low as -140C at night. Submitted by: King Sid star has such density Hyderabad, India that a teaspoonful of its matter would weigh more than all the people on Earth.

The largest known star Canis Majoris is so big that if our Sun were a though it is closest to ball 117cm (46in) wide, Canis Majoris would be 2.25 the Sun, Mercury has kilometers (1.3 miles) wide. ice in its craters. Submitted by: Colin Portland, Oregon, United States. size, Pluto's moon Charon is also considered to be a double dwarf planet Despite being closest to the sun, Mercury is (two planets orbiting each other), rather than not the hottest planet. The a moon orbiting its hottest planet is Venus (at 462 Celsius). Submitted by: planet. Erik Halenkamp - Naples, Italy

The Pistol Star is the most luminous star known - 10 million times the power of the Sun and as big as the size of Earth's entire orbit around the Sun. Submitted by: Ankita, Manaal and Anisha - Dubai,

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Mars is red because its soil is very rusty (iron oxide.) Submitted by: Ankita Lalwani - Dubai, United Arab Emirates.