Sweet building blocks of life found around young star

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 06:30 in Astronomy & Space

Life is made up of a series of complex organic molecules, including sugars. A team of astronomers have now observed a simple sugar molecule in the gas surrounding a young star and this discovery proves that the building blocks of life were already present during planet formation.

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