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Thursday, 25 June 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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Snow
Snow is formed from the finest droplets of over-cooled water in clouds.
These droplets attach themselves to nuclei of crystallization, which can be, for example, dust parti ...
Fungi
What distinguishes fungi from animals is the presence of cell walls and vacuoles, which in turn makes them closer to plants.
Fungi do not perform photosynthesis, the cell walls of most fungi contain chitin, which does not occ ...
Cosmos
The largest galaxy that has been spotted so far is IC 1101.
Located 1.04 billion light-years from Earth, this giant has a diameter of more than two million ligh ...
Mushrooms
Mycelium may become visible to the naked eye, for example, on various surfaces and substrates such as damp walls or spoiled food.
Myceliums grown on solid substrates are referred to as colonies. Some individual colonies can reach ...
Ganymede
The moon's mantle is surrounded by layers of ice and salty liquid water.
These layers alternate. The surface of the moon consists of hard ice several kilometers thick.
Graphene
Graphene is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a two-dimensional honeycomb nanostructure (an intermediate-sized structure between microscopic and molecular structures).
Allotropy is the phenomenon of the existence of different varieties of the same chemical element in ...
Moon
The Moon's atmosphere consists of 25 percent helium, 25 percent neon, 23percent hydrogen, 20 percent argon and residual amounts of methane, ammonia and carbon dioxide.
Large Magellanic Cloud
In 964, the Persian astronomer Al Sufi observed the galaxy and named it Al Bakr, which means "The White Ox".
Earth
Depending on the classification, there are five to seven continents on Earth.
According to the most common division, there are Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa, ...
Brain
The brain generates up to 80,000 thoughts a day.
That's over 3,000 thoughts per hour.