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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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