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Here are a hundred unique facts about our solar system:

1. The solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a giant molecular cloud.

2. It consists of a central star, the Sun, and all celestial objects bound to it by gravity.

3. The Sun accounts for about 99.86% of the solar system's mass.

4. There are eight major planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

5. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun.

6. Venus is often called Earth's "sister planet" due to its similar size and composition.

7. Earth is the only planet known to support life.

8. Mars is often referred to as the "Red Planet" due to its reddish appearance.

9. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, over 11 times the diameter of Earth.

10. Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a massive storm that has been raging for over 350 years.

11. Saturn is known for its stunning ring system, made up of icy particles.

12. Uranus is unique because it rotates on its side, likely due to a past collision.

13. Neptune is the farthest known planet from the Sun.

14. Pluto was considered the ninth planet until it was reclassified as a "dwarf planet" in 2006.

15. The Kuiper Belt is a region beyond Neptune that's populated with many small, icy bodies.

16. Oort Cloud is a theoretical region containing a reservoir of comets far beyond the Kuiper Belt.

17. The Sun's core reaches temperatures of about 15 million degrees Celsius.

18. The Sun's energy is generated through nuclear fusion, where hydrogen atoms combine to form helium.

19. Solar flares are intense bursts of radiation caused by magnetic activity on the Sun's surface.

20. The solar wind is a stream of charged particles constantly flowing from the Sun.

21. The Sun's gravity keeps all the planets in orbit around it.

22. A day on Mercury (one rotation) is about 176 Earth days, while its year (orbit around the Sun) is about 88 Earth days.

23. Venus has an extremely thick and toxic atmosphere, making its surface hotter than Mercury.

24. Earth's atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and traces of other gases.

25. The Earth's Moon is about 1/6th the size of Earth.

26. The Moon is gradually moving away from Earth at a rate of about 3.8 centimeters per year.

27. Mars has the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, which is about 13.6 miles high.

28. Mars also has the deepest canyon, Valles Marineris, which is over 6 miles deep.

29. Jupiter's moon, Io, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.

30. Saturn's rings are made up of particles ranging in size from tiny grains to a few meters in diameter.

31. Saturn's moon, Titan, is the only known natural satellite in the solar system with a thick atmosphere.

32. Uranus has a peculiar rotational axis tilt of about 98 degrees.

33. Neptune has the strongest winds in the solar system, with speeds up to 1,200 miles per hour.

34. Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth and is currently in interstellar space.

35. Voyager 2, another spacecraft, is also in interstellar space, but it's taking a different path.

36. The New Horizons spacecraft provided the first close-up images of Pluto in 2015.

37. The asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, is a region with millions of rocky objects.

38. Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, is now considered a "dwarf planet."

39. Haumea, another "dwarf planet," is unique due to its elongated shape, likely caused by a high-speed collision.

40. Makemake, yet another "dwarf planet," is known for its reddish color.

41. Eris, a "dwarf planet" in the scattered disk, was the catalyst for Pluto's reclassification.

42. Comets are made up of a mixture of water, frozen gases, dust, and rocky material.

43. Halley's Comet is one of the most famous comets and returns to the inner solar system roughly every 76 years.

44. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) monitors the Sun's activity and studies the solar wind.

45. The Hubble Space Telescope has provided us with breathtaking images and insights into the cosmos.

46. The Chandra X-ray Observatory studies X-rays coming from high-energy regions in the universe.

47. The James Webb Space Telescope (scheduled for launch) will study the universe in infrared wavelengths.

48. The Great Dark Spot on Neptune, similar to Jupiter's storm, disappeared by the time Hubble observed it.

49. The Sun will eventually expand into a red giant, possibly engulfing the inner planets, including Earth.

50. When the Sun exhausts its nuclear fuel, it will become a white dwarf and eventually cool down over trillions of years.

51. Some asteroids have their own tiny moons, called "moonlets."

52. The largest asteroid, Ceres, was visited by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which orbited it from 2015 to 2018.

53. The largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede, is even larger than the planet Mercury.

54. Ganymede and Callisto, two of Jupiter's largest moons, may have subsurface oceans.

55. Saturn's moon Enceladus has geysers that shoot water vapor into space, suggesting a subsurface ocean.

56. Phobos, one of Mars' moons, is slowly spiraling in toward the planet and may eventually crash into it.

57. The Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars is so large it could stretch across the entire United States.

58. The largest volcano on Earth, Mauna Loa in Hawaii, is dwarfed by Olympus Mons on Mars.

59. The International Space Station (ISS) is a collaborative project involving multiple space agencies.

60. The Voyager spacecraft carry golden records with messages from Earth in case they encounter extraterrestrial life.

61. The space probe Dawn, which visited Vesta and Ceres, ended its mission by orbiting indefinitely around Ceres.

62. The first human-made object to reach interstellar space was Voyager 1 in 2012.

63. The heliosphere is a bubble of charged particles that surrounds the solar system and shields it from cosmic radiation.

64. The Oort Cloud is believed to be the source of long-period comets.

65. The New Horizons spacecraft was the fastest human-made object, reaching speeds of about 58,000 kilometers per hour.

66. Solar eclipses occur when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, casting a shadow on Earth's surface.

67. Lunar eclipses occur when Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon, casting a shadow on the Moon's surface.

68. The first person to step onto the Moon was Neil Armstrong, followed by Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969.

69. The Moon's surface temperature can vary dramatically, from about -173°C to 127°C (-280°F to 260°F).

70. The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a massive storm that has been observed