The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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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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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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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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