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 approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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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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