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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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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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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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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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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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