Key Building Blocks for Life Discovered in Cloud Near Center of Our Galaxy - SciTechDaily

Key precursors for life on Earth are abundant in interstellar molecular clouds and could have arrived on Earth inside comets and meteors. Nitriles, a class of organic molecules with a cyano group (a carbon atom bound with a triple unsaturated bond to a nitrog…

ByFrontiersJuly 8, 2022 New research finds that molecular clouds are loaded with key precursors for life on Earth. This image is of the Pigtail Molecular Cloud. Credit: Keio University, NAOJ Key pr… [+8623 chars]

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