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Astronomers have found a friendly molecule in deep space.
New research shows how a simple molecule called ortho-benzene helps form more complex organic molecules deep inside a frigid gas cloud. The team says it plays a small but critical role in creating chemically rich building blocks that will eons later form young stars and planets.
In the last few years, astronomers have discovered a bunch of complex organic molecules in rapid succession inside the dense Taurus Molecular Cloud-1 (TMC-1), which is a stellar nursery in the constellation Taurus located some 440 light-years from Earth.
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Astronomers have found a friendly molecule in deep space.
New research shows how a simple molecule called ortho-benzene helps form more complex organic molecules deep inside a frigid gas cloud. The team says it plays a small but critical role in creating chemically rich building blocks that will eons later form young stars and planets.
In the last few years, astronomers have discovered a bunch of complex organic molecules in rapid succession inside the dense Taurus Molecular Cloud-1 (TMC-1), which is a stellar nursery in the constellation Taurus located some 440 light-years from Earth.
More at link...
