When You Don’t Believe
Space has a smell. Different astronauts have described it as smelling like gunpowder, burnt almond cookies, pleasantly metallic, welding, and even steak. If we average the color of the light emitted by galaxies, their stars, and all visible clouds of gas and dust in the universe, it forms a color similar to ivory, nearly white. The color is called ‘cosmic latte.’ The International Space Station is the third-brightest object in the sky, after the Sun and the Moon. A full…