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Falling satellite due to hit Friday
A 20-year-old NASA satellite the size of a bus that is heading for Earth is expected to hit tomorrow. NASA and the US Department of Defense are tracking the 35ft spacecraft, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or (UARS), as it rushes towards the planet at eight kilometres per second. Experts say there is a one-in-3200 risk of the six-ton space junk hitting someone - considerably greater than...
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That’s 300 sextillion.
A typical galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, and there are more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe.