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Dec 3, 2025
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Which planet has the largest volcano in the solar system?

Mars hosts the largest known volcano in the Solar System: Olympus Mons, a shield volcano about 21–22 km high and roughly 370–700 km across, covering some 300,000 km² — far larger than any terrestrial ...

Nov 21, 2025

Alternative explanations for unusual sky patterns

Unusual patterns in the sky often have mundane astronomical explanations: bright “new” or “super” moons, close conjunctions of planets, meteor showers (including occasional fireball years), and planet...

Nov 19, 2025

Will the universe end in heat death?

Heat death (also called the Big Freeze) is a mainstream, physically motivated hypothesis that the universe may asymptotically approach thermodynamic equilibrium — a state with no usable free energy an...

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