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Hubble circles Earth every 95 minutes

The Hubble Space Telescope orbits at about 17,000 miles per hour and circles Earth once every 95 minutes.

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It flies in low Earth orbit about 300 miles up. From above the atmosphere it gets a clearer view than observatories on the ground.

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1.3 million Earths could fit inside the Sun

It would take 1.3 million Earths to fill the Sun's volume.

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The Sun holds 99.8% of the solar system's mass

The Sun accounts for 99.8 percent of all the mass in the solar system.

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Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt

The dwarf planet Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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