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 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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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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