There is a cloud of alcohol drifting through the constellation Aquila that is 1,000 times the diameter of our solar system and contains enough ethanol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer — and

In 1995, a team of British radio astronomers led by Dr Tom Millar pointed one of the world’s largest radio telescopes at a faint patch of sky in the constellation Aquila — the Eagle. What they found, somewhat improbably, was alcohol. Not a trace amount of it. Not a passing molecule. A cloud of it. […]