The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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