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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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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