Cold Sugar Cloud Found in Space

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @09:44AM from the limes-are-one-galaxy-over dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "A cloud filled with simple molecules of sugar has been found 26,000 light-years away from us, near the middle of our galaxy. The 8-atom sugar molecules exist in a gas cloud named Sagittarius B2 at a temperature of only 8 degrees above absolute zero. Too far and too cold to bake your next cake! However, even if chemistry reactions on Earth and in this frigid sugar cloud are very different, astronomers think this discovery "suggests how the molecular building blocks necessary for the creation of life could first form in interstellar space." Please read the original article for more details or just enjoy these illustrations describing how prebiotic chemistry -- the formation of the molecular building blocks necessary for the creation of life -- occurs in interstellar clouds."

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My girlfriend asks a very pertinent question... by HaloZero · 2004-09-22 11:21 · Score: 1, Offtopic

...espicially for a geek community.

Has anyone found any creamer, yet?

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Mod parent up by vijaya_chandra · 2004-09-22 11:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Too bad you've posted as an AC