Complex Organic Molecules Discovered in Infant Star System: Hints that Prebiotic Chemistry Is Universal
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 13:00
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers using ALMA have detected the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star, suggesting once again that the conditions that spawned our Earth and Sun are not unique in the universe.