astronomy, n.Trivia

The center of our galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum.

Anaxagoras was the first person to theorize that the moon and the sun were giant spherical rocks (mid-400s B.C.)

Neutron stars are the leftovers from the death of massive stars in supernova explosions

Neutron stars are so dense that just a sugar cube of one would weigh about one hundred million tons on Earth

Neutron stars are dense --- just a bowlful of neutron star material has more mass than the Moon

Neutron stars can spin at a rate of 600 rotations per second

Neutron stars are so dense that a soup can full of one would have more mass than the Moon