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Another New Biome Is Coming To Minecraft This Fall - GameSpot

During today’s Minecraft Live broadcast, Mojang dropped some small teasers about a new biome coming to the blocky sandbox game this fall. While the next Minecraft update, Chaos Cubed, is officially set for release on June 16, this fall sees the arrival of the…

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There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. A major global estimate put the planet’s tree count at about three trillion, while NASA gives the Milky Way’s star count as roughly 100 to 400 billion. - Space Daily

The most cited global estimate puts the number of trees on Earth at about three trillion. NASA gives the Milky Way somewhere between 100 and 400 billion stars. Three trillion is more than seven times the high end of that range, so there are indeed more trees …

Space Daily
The oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is essential to almost every animal alive today — but when it first started accumulating in the air roughly 2.4 billion years ago, it triggered the most lethal pollution event in the planet's history, wiping out the vast majority of spec - Space Daily

Roughly 2.4 billion years ago, the atmosphere of the Earth underwent the most consequential chemical change in the planet’s history. Free oxygen, a gas that had been present only in trace amounts for the previous two billion years, began accumulating in the a…

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There are more atoms in a single glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the world's oceans combined — and if you marked every atom in one glass, dumped it into the sea, and waited for the oceans to mix completely, every glass of water on Earth - Space Daily

The arithmetic is one of the oldest and most reliable demonstrations in physics, and the conclusion is one of the harder facts about the size of atoms to actually believe. A standard 250-millilitre glass of water contains roughly 25 trillion trillion atoms, w…

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The Sun might look yellow, but seen from space without an atmosphere filtering its light, the sun is actually white — and the yellow color we see from Earth is the result of our atmosphere scattering blue wavelengths away, in the same physics that makes the sk - Space Daily

The Sun is depicted as yellow in children’s drawings, in weather icons, on flags, and in the standard astronomical shorthand. Astronomers themselves classify it as a “yellow dwarf,” a G2V-type main sequence star. The yellow framing is so consistent across hum…

Space Daily
A day on Earth is described as 24 hours, but the planet has been slowing down for billions of years — and growth rings in ancient coral fossils show that 380 million years ago, hundreds of millions of years before any dinosaur existed, an Earth day was only ab - Space Daily

The length of a day on Earth is not constant. The planet’s rotation has been slowing for billions of years, primarily because tidal friction transfers rotational energy from Earth to the Moon, which slowly moves outward to a higher orbit. The current rate of …

Space Daily
There is a region of space called the Boötes void, around 330 million light years wide and almost completely empty, and if our galaxy sat at its centre, we might not have discovered that other galaxies existed until well into the twentieth century. - Space Daily

In the direction of the constellation Boötes there is a roughly spherical region of space, around 330 million light-years across, in which almost nothing is found. It is called the Boötes Void, sometimes the Great Void, and it is one of the largest known empt…

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The surface of the Sun is around 5,500 degrees, but its outer atmosphere is more than a million degrees hotter, and after decades of work physicists still cannot fully explain how the cooler layer heats the one above it. - Space Daily

The visible surface of the Sun, the photosphere, sits at around 5,500 degrees Celsius. Its outer atmosphere, the corona, runs to one or two million degrees, and in places hotter still. The cooler layer is below; the far hotter one is above it.

Space Daily
Astronomers have found a cloud of water vapour around a distant quasar holding something like 140 trillion times all the water in Earth's oceans, the largest reservoir of water ever discovered anywhere in the universe. - Space Daily

In July 2011, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that two teams of astronomers had detected an enormous mass of water vapour around a quasar called APM 08279+5255, more than 12 billion light-years away. The quantity was put at the equivalent of 140 tr…

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