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Thursday 27 December 2012

Sugar Discovered In Space

    
Astronomers have made a sweet discovery: simple sugar molecules floating in the gas around a star some 400 light-years away, suggesting the possibility of life on other planets.
The August discovery doesn't prove that life has developed elsewhere in the universe—but it implies that there is no reason it could not. It shows that the carbon-rich molecules that are the building
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image courtesy L. Calçada, ESO/NOAJ/NRAO
source:nationalgeographic

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