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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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