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The entire Milky Way smells like rum and tastes like raspberries.
Large clouds of ethyl formate, a chemical that gives raspberries their flavor and rum its smell, have been detected in the Milky Way. This molecule is one of many organic compounds found in space that demonstrate how complex chemistry can occur in interstellar environments.
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A spoonful of a white dwarf star would weigh several tons.
White dwarfs are the remnants of stars like our Sun after they've exhausted their nuclear fuel. They're incredibly...
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Some planets orbit their stars in figure-eight patterns.
In binary star systems, planets can follow complex figure-eight orbital patterns due to the gravitational influence of both...
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Jupiter’s moon Io has lakes of liquid sulfur.
Due to intense tidal heating from Jupiter, Io has lakes of molten sulfur on its surface that can...