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 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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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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