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Old 29-March-2008, 12:41 PM
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Default Organic Molecule, Amino Acid-Like, Found

in constellation Sagittarius.

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"Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn have detected for the first time a molecule closely related to an amino acid: amino acetonitrile. The organic molecule was found with a 30 metre radio telescope in Spain and two radio interferometers in France and Australia in the "Large Molecule Heimat", a giant gas cloud near the galactic centre in the constellation Sagittarius."
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Yeah, and a few years ago I remember them finding a huge cloud of alcohol. Once the amino acids get jiggy-jiggy and assemble into life, they'll have a read supply of booze in the Beer Majoris nebula!
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