Sunsets on Mars are blue.

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Blue

Sunsets on Mars are blue.

Martian sunsets can show a blue glow concentrated near the Sun. Fine airborne dust produces this effect, while much of the surrounding sky can remain yellow, orange or reddish.

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243 days

A rotation on Venus takes longer than its entire year.

Venus takes about 243 Earth days to rotate relative to the stars, longer than its 225-day year. Its solar day, measured from one sunrise to the next, is shorter: about 117 Earth days.

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1B tons

A teaspoon of neutron star would weigh about a billion tons.

A teaspoon-sized volume at neutron-star densities can have a mass of roughly a billion tons. This is a density comparison, not a suggestion that stable spoonfuls could be brought to Earth.

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