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Showing posts with label Finding the Sweet ALMA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finding the Sweet ALMA. Show all posts

Monday, September 10, 2012

Finding the Sweet ALMA


Using the telescope ALMA (the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array), a group of astronomers identify sugar molecules present in the gas surrounding a young star similar to the sun. This is the first time it has been found that sugar in the space around a star of this kind.
This finding demonstrates that the essential essentials for life are in the right time and place to exist on planets that form around the star.
                                                                   
Astronomers found glycolaldehyde molecules (a simple sugar [1]) in the gas surrounding a young star called IRAS 16293-2422 young binary,