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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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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