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Some tribes in North America used the double star Alcor-Mizar as a vision test. A match box filled with the material of a neutron star will weigh about 15.000 million of tons. When we look at the stars, we see the different pasts, because can see the light that departed some time ago. For example, the light of the sun takes eight minutes to reach the earth. If someone lit off the sun, we would need 8 minutes to notice it. Depending on the distance, the time will change. The highest mountain in the solar system is The mount Olympus in Mars. It's a volcano with 27 km high and 600 km wide. Each hour a million of meteorites arrive at our atmosphere. The energy that the sun liberates in its centre takes 100.000 years to reach the surface. The proportion of Carbone, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen found in comets is similar to human proportion. The Andromeda strain: Andromeda is the closest galaxy to the Milky Way. Andromeda is 2.5 million years light from us ( a year light = 9,5 billion of kilometres) It approaches the Milky Way at 400.000 km/h. Scientist of NASA believe that in 4.000 million years (we will be very old) it will happen a huge collision . The Milky Way contains about 200.000 and 400.000 million of stars. Mizar-Alcor is the name of two stars placed in the Ursa Major constellation. Mizar is the star in the middle of the tail it is also the 4th most brilliant star in the constellation.