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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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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