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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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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