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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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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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