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The Sun is a star! Stars produce their own energy through nuclear fusion.

True! Australia has a Deep Space Network station near Canberra called the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex. Along with its sister stations in California and near Madrid in Spain, they send and receive information from spacecraft.

The first Australian orbiting satellite, the Weapons Research Establishment Satellite (WRESAT), was launched from Woomera in South Australia.

The Sun can fit approximately one million Earths inside, although to fit all million, you’d need to squish them out of shape a bit!

Buzz Aldrin was the other astronaut on board the Apollo 11 lunar module, and he was the second person to step on the Moon.