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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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean, causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
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NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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