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.
9
Sound doesn't travel in space.
255
One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
277
All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
194
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
127
There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
15
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
88
More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
139