For the average person, space is equal parts awesome and terrifying. Even with the rapid discoveries from both the laboratory and the space missions, the universe still has a lot of unanswered questions.
From galactic alcohol deposits to icons ripped straight off literature books, here are four of the most interesting things ever found across the universe.
A Giant Walnut in Our Solar System
In our own Solar System, Saturn is known to have as much as 82 moons - 53 are confirmed while 29 are awaiting discovery and official nomenclature - according to NASA. One of its largest moons, Iapetus, looks like the counterpart of the universe to the Earth's walnut.
However, astronomers have apparently found its real-life instance across the universe, in the spiral galaxy NGC 4151, there is a young star they dubbed "The Eye of Sauron." Fomalhaut, the star with designation Alpha Piscis Austrini, is a class A star with its own debris disc. The result? A lone star in the middle, a dark space surrounding it followed by a huge mass of rocks and ice about twice the width of our own solar system.
A Galactic River of Alcohol
In the Institute of Radio Astronomy in the Millimeter Range (IRAM) in the Spanish Sierra Nevada, there is a large telescope for making astronomical observations. One of its most interesting discoveries is the Sagittarius B2, a giant molecular cloud about 120 parsecs from the center of the Milky Way.
Although it is a cloud, it has a complex composition of varying densities and temperatures. One of the most abundant substances found in the cloud is an ester, ethyl formate. This chemical smells like rum and is responsible for giving that distinct raspberry flavor. Aside from ethyl formate, the huge cloud drifting across the universe also contains other types of alcohol.
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