Building blocks of life found in distant star system suggest origins in interstellar space

Building blocks of life found in distant star system suggest origins in interstellar space

Space Daily

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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2025

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has detected 17 complex organic molecules in the protoplanetary disc of the protostar V883 Orionis. Among them are ethylene glycol and glycolonitrile-molecules regarded as precursors to amino acids and nucleobases-marking their first tentative detection i

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