Component of mothballs is present in deep-space clouds
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 16:35
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Interstellar clouds, drifting through the unimaginable vastness of space, may be the stuff dreams are made of. But it turns out there's an unexpectedly strange component in those clouds, and it's not dreams but -- mothballs?