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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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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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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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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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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