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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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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