In a cloud of
gas and dust around young stars are found far monosaccharides. The simplest the
"building blocks of life" - exactly the right time and the right
place to be on the planet-forming.
Binary star IRAS
16293-2422 is not so far, only 400 light-years from Earth in the gas and dust
cloud surrounding the Rho Ophiuchi. Her entourage Danish astronomer Jess
Jorgensen (Jes Jorgensen) and colleagues observed in the infrared, with the
observatory ALMA , revealed traces glikolaldegida .