Proto-suns teeming with prebiotic molecules
Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 13:31
in Biology & Nature
Complex organic molecules such as formamide, from which sugars, amino acids and even nucleic acids essential for life can be made, already appear in the regions where stars similar to our Sun are born. Astrophysicists have detected this biomolecule in five protostellar clouds and propose that it forms on tiny dust grains.