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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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 comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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