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Strange Universe: I didn't know that! 7/10/22

NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

What's the most common thing in the universe? Well, there are more smaller objects than larger ones, more minnows than whales, so think of the least massive particle that envelops us. The Answer is: The neutrino. Created in the core of the Sun, they fly outward in astonishingly thick hordes, passing through everything effortlessly. Each second, six trillion neutrinos fly through your eyes.

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