Chilean telescope finds sugar molecules near star

Santiago (AFP) Aug 29, 2012
Astronomers using a powerful radio telescope in Chile said Wednesday that they had discovered sugar molecules, one of the building blocks of life, orbiting a young star similar to the Sun. "This is the first time sugar been found in space around such a star," the European Southern Observatory (ESO), which is administering the project, said Wednesday. The astronomers found glycolaldehyde,

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