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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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