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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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