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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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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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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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