An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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