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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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