Astronomers just found complex carbon molecules in space – a step closer to deciphering the origins of life
- Written by Maria Cunningham, Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Physics, UNSW Sydney
Part of the Taurus molecular cloud.ESA, CC BY-SAA team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant interstellar cloud of gas and dust.
This is exciting for those of us who keep lists of known interstellar molecules in the hope that we might work out how life arose in the universe.
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