12. A Rum-Smelling Space Cloud

Found Year: Not Known
Who Found It: Not Sure
Location: Away by 25,000 Light-Years
The instrument that scientists use to assist them identify the (usually terrible) odours of the different objects detected in space that are too far away and too dangerous to smell in person is called the Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis instrument, or ROSINA. Remarkable results were obtained a few years ago when Sagittarius B2, one of the clouds close to the Milky Way’s galactic centre, was measured by ROSINA.