The Center Of The Milky Way Might Taste Like Raspberries And Smell Like Rum.

The Center Of The Milky Way Might Taste Like Raspberries And Smell Like Rum.

-Crazy Facts Of Cosmology.

The center of the Milky Way tastes like raspberries and smells like Captain Morgan. Astronomers researching the giant dust cloud in the middle of the galaxy found the chemical ethyl formate, which gives raspberries their flavor and smells like rum.

The newly detected presence of two complex organic molecules in the Milky Way suggests the building blocks for life may exist in space even before the formation of planets.

The results were presented yesterday at the European week of astronomy and space science at the university of Hertfordshire. Last year, the team came tantalisingly close to finding amino acids in space with the discovery of a molecule that can be used to make them, called amino acetonitrile.

Ethyl formate has another distinguishing characteristic: - it also smells of rum.

While scouring their data, the team found evidence for the lethal chemical propyl cyanide in the same cloud. The two molecules are the largest yet discovered in deep space.

Finding amino acids in interstellar is a holy grail for astrobiologists, as this would raise the possibility of life emerging on other planets after being seeded with the molecules.