A giant cloud of alcohol floating in space contains enough booze for every human to drink 300k pints a day for a billion years.Floating ten thousand light-years away in the constellation Aquila is an incredible astronomical oddity — a massive cloud of ethyl alcohol. This interstellar cocktail is 1,000 times larger than the diameter of our solar system and contains enough alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. This cosmic marvel is fascinating in its scale. But that's not all. Alcohol is an organic compound, which is one of the building blocks of life. According to Barry Turner at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, these alcohol clouds may “help us better understand how life might arise elsewhere in the cosmos.”Learn more: https://phys.org/news/2006-04-astronomers-alcohol-cloud-spanning-billion.html
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