Star-Forming Clouds May Spit Out Life’s Building Blocks

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Star-Forming Clouds May Spit Out Life’s Building Blocks

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Oct 9, 2014

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Astronomers have discovered one of the largest and most complex organic molecules yet in a gaseous star-forming region of interstellar space. Clara Moskowitz reports

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Oct 9, 2014

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