Researchers examining the giant dust cloud at the center of our galaxy have concluded that it tastes like raspberries and smells like rum. They were looking for life-building amino acids, but found a substance called ethyl formate. It’s the compound that gives raspberries their flavor, and also happens to smell like rum.

“It does happen to give raspberries their flavour, but there are many other molecules that are needed to make space raspberries,” Arnaud Belloche, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, told the Guardian.

“Space Raspberries” would be an awesome name for a band.

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