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 temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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