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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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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