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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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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