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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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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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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