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 center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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