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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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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