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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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