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The entire Milky Way smells like rum and tastes like raspberries.
Large clouds of ethyl formate, a chemical that gives raspberries their flavor and rum its smell, have been detected in the Milky Way. This molecule is one of many organic compounds found in space that demonstrate how complex chemistry can occur in interstellar environments.
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The Sun contains 99.86% of all the mass in our solar system.
Despite the planets, asteroids, comets, and other objects in our solar system, almost all the mass is contained...
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There’s a planet covered in lava oceans with winds seven times the speed of sound.
K2-141b is a planet so hot that it has oceans of molten rock and supersonic winds made of...
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There’s a planet covered in burning ice.
Gliese 436 b, a Neptune-sized exoplanet, is covered in a form of water ice that remains solid despite...