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 rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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