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 earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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