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Astronomers Discover Complex Carbon Molecules in Interstellar Space
https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-discover-complex-carbon-molecules-in-interstellar-space
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41946381

* large molecules containing carbon in distant interstellar cloud of gas/dust
* gradually building picture of how life on Earth evolved
* complex organic, pre-biological molecules needed to form life may have come from space

Detection of interstellar 1-cyanopyrene: A four-ring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq6391

#space #cosmos #OrganicChemistry #OriginOfLife