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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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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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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