A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition

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On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with the Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over 300 metres away and Pluto would be two and a half kilometres distant (and about the size of a bacterium, so you wouldn’t be able to see it anyway). On the same scale, Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, would be 16,000 kilometres

the whole universe, as far as we yet know, there is only

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liquid water and some source of chemical energy we find life.”

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