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One of life's building blocks found around infant, sun-like stars


June 8, 2017

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Our solar system is teeming with simple carbon-based molecules, the basic building blocks of life. Detecting chemistry similar to Earth's around distant stars suggests a possible pathway to life on other worlds. Recently, astronomers using NSF-funded Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array found traces of the organic molecule around a multiple star system about 400 light-years from Earth. The newly emerging stars seem similar to what scientists believe would be versions our own sun.Full Story

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