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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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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