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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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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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NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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From the nitrogen in our DNA, to the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, to the carbon in our apple pies - all were made in the interiors of collapsing stars; we're all made of stardust.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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