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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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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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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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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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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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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