The center of the Milky Way smells like rum & tastes like raspberries.

 

The center of the Milky Way smells like rum & tastes like raspberries.

This was discovered by the IRAM radio telescope zeroed in on a gas cloud called Sagittarius B2 at the center of the our galaxy.

Space is impossible — the ultimate how is this for real. The scale alone is absurd. Earth exists in the Milky Way galaxy, which measures an astounding hundred thousand light-years across. Less than a century ago, it was believed that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Ha. HA. The known universe is in fact comprised of billions of galaxies, some of which are ten times the size of the Milky Way. Within those galaxies are millions, billions, sometimes even trillions of stars (there are probably a hundred billion billion stars in the entire universe), as well as gas and dust.

The Big Bang theory states that this whole insane thing began with one tiny particle. One. That tiny particle exploded more than 13 billion years ago, precipitating the expansion of space, an expansion that is still going on today. The universe is just getting bigger and bigger.