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Sunday, 12 July 2026
13 facts about Deimos
13 facts about Deimos
A smaller moon of Mars
Deimos is a smaller and more distant Martian moon. Its diameter is only 12.4 km, although it is difficult to talk about the diameter in the case of su ...

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Cosmos
After the first period of rapid expansion, the universe began to cool.
As the temperature dropped, subatomic particles and then atoms separated. The universe was filled wi ...
Tears
The human eye produces up to about 115 liters of tears annually.
Enceladus
It is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn.
Milky Way
Although not every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, there is one in the center of the Milky Way.
This region, called Sagittarius A*, is a very bright and compact radio source with a mass of 3.7 million solar masses and a diameter of approximately 44 million kilometers.
Mushrooms
The element that distinguishes fungi from animal is the presence of cell walls and vacuoles, which in turn brings them closer to plants.
Fungi do not carry out photosynthesis, the cell walls of most fungi contain chitin, which is not fou ...
Tears
Tears are made up of three layers.
Oily layer–smoothens the tear’s surface and prevents evaporation of other layers Mucous layer–allow ...
Milky Way
Until 1920, most astronomers believed that the Milky Way contained all the stars in the universe.
Only observations made by Edwin Hubble made humanity realize that it is only one of many galaxies.
Anorexia Nervosa
The earliest medical descriptions of the disease are attributed to English physician Richard Morton in 1689.
However, it was not until the late 19th century that mental anorexia nervosa was widely accepted by ...
Earth
The Earth formed from a proto-planetary disk around the Sun about 4.54 billion years ago.
For its first billion years, it was a hostile, harsh, rocky place where life did not exist. According to research, the first living organisms appeared in Earth's oceans about 3.5 billion years ago.
Liver
The liver can regenerate.
If only as much as 25% of the organ remains, it regenerates to the original size within a few weeks. This is why the liver makes a great donation organ.