Organic molecules detected in infant star system

In a breakthrough discovery, the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, has been detected by astronomers in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star.

The latest discovery hints that the conditions that spawned our Earth and Sun are not found only in our universe.

The astronomers used Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to make this discovery which revealed that the protoplanetary disk surrounding the million-year-old star MWC 480 is full of methyl cyanide (CH3CN), a complex carbon-based molecule and their simpler cousin, hydrogen cyanide (HCN).

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>The latest discovery hints that the conditions that spawned our Earth and Sun are not found only in our universe.

Dear oh dear.

Bubblecar said:

>The latest discovery hints that the conditions that spawned our Earth and Sun are not found only in our universe.

Dear oh dear.

but in other universes as well

> methyl cyanide (CH3CN)

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interstellar_and_circumstellar_molecules

Methyl cyanide was reported in interstellar clouds in 2005.
Remijan, Anthony J. et al. (2005), “Interstellar Isomers: The Importance of Bonding Energy Differences”, http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506502
“We present strong detections of methyl cyanide, vinyl cyanide, ethyl cyanide and cyanodiacetylene molecules with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) toward the Sgr B2(N) molecular cloud.”

CrazyNeutrino said:

and their simpler cousin, hydrogen cyanide (HCN).

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Damn inbreed hillbillies