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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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