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   1. We are made of stars.

   “They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. You, me, everyone: We are made of star stuff.”

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   2. Our universe may be part of a larger multiverse.

   “Many of us suspect that all of this — all the worlds, stars, galaxies and clusters in our observable universe — is but one tiny bubble in an infinite ocean of other universes.”

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   3. If we scaled the entire timeline of the cosmos to a calendar year, the entire recorded history of human life to present day would be 14 seconds.

   “Every person you’ve ever heard of lies right in there. All those kings and battles, migrations and inventions, wars and loves, every thing in the history books happened here in the last 14 seconds of the cosmic calendar.”

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   4. Giordano Bruno had no scientific evidence to support his beliefs about the cosmos, but he was surprisingly accurate nonetheless.

   “Bruno was no scientist. His vision of the cosmos was a lucky guess because he had no evidence to support it. Like most guesses, it could well have turned out wrong. But once the idea was in the air, it gave others a target to aim at — if only to disprove it.”

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   5. Our solar system is surrounded by an icy shell of comets that’s imperceptible to us on Earth.

   “Each one of these little worlds is as far from its nearest neighbor as Earth is from Saturn”

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   6. Comets come from an Oort cloud, which is a mass of icy bodies on the outskirts of the solar system, and circle around the sun.

   “These are the snows of yesteryear. Drifting mountains of ice and rock, the preserved remnants of the birth of the solar system.”

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   7. Our eyes originally evolved to see in water, so we don’t see as well as we should.

   “When our amphibious ancestors left the water for the land their eyes, exquisitely evolved to see in water, were lousy for seeing in the air. Our vision has never been as good since. We like to think of our eyes as state of the art, but 375 million years later, we still can’t see things right in front of our noses.”

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   8. Edmond Halley didn’t “discover” Halley’s Comet.

   “Halley hunted down every astronomical observation of a comet recorded in Europe between 1472 and 1698… All Halley had were his books and his mind … Halley had to take the observations made for each comet and find the shape of its actual path through space … In an arduous, tour-de-force of mathematical brilliance, Halley discovered that comets were bound to the sun in long, elliptical orbits.”

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   9. The Tardigrade, or Waterbear, is the only animal to survive all five major mass extinctions on Earth.

   “You’ve probably never noticed them because they’re so small, about the size of a pinpoint, but they’re tough…they’ve been in business for half a billion years. We used to think that life was finicky… But we were wrong.”

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    10. Andromeda and The Milky Way will eventually merge into one galaxy — but it won’t be a catastrophic event.

    “Because the distances between the stars are so great compared to their sizes, few, if any stars in either galaxy will actually collide. Any life on the worlds of that far-off future should be safe, but they would be treated to an amazing billion-year-long light show. A dance of a half trillion stars.”

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Read more: http://mashable.com/2014/03/31/triple-point/