This is the title of an article in the "news of the week" section of this week's Chemical & Engineering News magazine (I have a subscription through the American Chemical Society).
You can check it out at www.CEN-ONLINE.ORG. The original article was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics (DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811550)
In a nutshell, an international research team has discovered ethyl formate and n-propyl cyanide in a gaseous cloud outside our solar system. These molecules have the same size and complexity as glycine, the simplest aminoacid. Researchers are saying that this "gives impetus to future searches for higher aminoacids [...]". In other words, there's reason to believe that these biological bulding blocks are out there, and if found they would support the idea that prebiotic chemistry exists beyoud our solar system.
I thought this was cool and wanted to share
Also...I can't wait to hear how creationists are going to credit god for this :lol:
You can check it out at www.CEN-ONLINE.ORG. The original article was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics (DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811550)
In a nutshell, an international research team has discovered ethyl formate and n-propyl cyanide in a gaseous cloud outside our solar system. These molecules have the same size and complexity as glycine, the simplest aminoacid. Researchers are saying that this "gives impetus to future searches for higher aminoacids [...]". In other words, there's reason to believe that these biological bulding blocks are out there, and if found they would support the idea that prebiotic chemistry exists beyoud our solar system.
I thought this was cool and wanted to share
Also...I can't wait to hear how creationists are going to credit god for this :lol: