Zum ersten Mal haben Astronomen Bausteine des Lebens im Eis außerhalb der Grenzen unserer Galaxie gesehen.
https://www.sciencealert.com/?p=178385
Zum ersten Mal haben Astronomen Bausteine des Lebens im Eis außerhalb der Grenzen unserer Galaxie gesehen.
https://www.sciencealert.com/?p=178385
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„Life“ is doing a lot of work in that title, and does not appear once in the actual published paper: [Protostars at Subsolar Metallicity: First Detection of Large Solid-state Complex Organic Molecules in the Large Magellanic Cloud](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0ccd)
„This changes EVERYTHING!“
You cannot use infrared vibrational assignment to distinguish complex species in a mixed matrix. This is a guessing game and will never have a correct solution.
You can use microwaves to detect unique rotational spectra in gas phase species.
Any paper claiming to observe large species in ices like this one are incorrect. They THINK they observe it purely because they want it to be there.
Finding complex organic molecules in environments like this does not mean life exists there but it does show the ingredients can form in many places.
It is interesting because it suggests the chemistry that leads toward life might be more common in the universe than we thought.