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For the first time, scientists find complex organic molecules in an infant star system
We're not special. Or our complex organic molecules aren't, anyway. And that's good news in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. In a new study published Wednesday in Nature, astronomers found the first signs of the complex, carbon-based molecules that make life possible on Earth in a protoplanetary disk; the region where cosmic building blocks gather to create planets in a brand-new star system.
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