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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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