The centre of the Milky Way galaxy smells like raspberries and rum

In 2009, astronomers searching for amino acids in the gas clouds of Sagittarius B2 — a massive molecular cloud near the Milky Way's centre — discovered ethyl formate, the compound responsible for the flavour and smell of raspberries. The same cloud also contains ethanol (the alcohol in rum). The cloud is 150 light-years across and contains 10 billion billion billion litres of alcohol. You cannot drink it — the cloud also contains toxic compounds — but space does smell like a dessert cocktail.