Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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