Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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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