Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Milky Way Tastes like Raspberries!

Milky Way

Can anybody ever think about the taste of a giant dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way? Yes, probably no one but Astronomers did. Astronomers testing a giant dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way have found that it might taste of raspberries, according to reports.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, were searching space for evidence of amino acids: the basic chemicals from which life is created. Scientists failed to locate any such aminos but did find ethyl formate - the chemical responsible for the flavour of raspberries.

The astronomers used the IRAM telescope in Spain to analyze electromagnetic radiation emitted by a hot and dense region of Sagittarius B2 that surrounds a newborn star, the paper reported.
Radiation from the star is absorbed by molecules floating around in the gas cloud, which is then re-emitted at different energies depending on the type of molecule. Ethyl formate and propyl cyanide are two molecules are the largest yet discovered in deep space.

Astronomer Arnaud Belloche said that It was happen to give raspberries their flavor, but there were many other molecules that were needed to make space raspberries. The results are being presented today at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science at the University of Hertfordshire.

1 comments:

Matt said...

Tastes like Snozzberries!

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