Naphthalene Found In Outer Space

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 20, 2008 @02:38PM from the wake-me-up-when-they-find-remulac dept.

Adam Korbitz writes with an excerpt from his blog on an exciting discovery in space: "A team of researchers led by Spanish scientists has published their discovery of the complex molecule naphthalene in an interstellar star-forming cloud, indicating many prebiotic organic molecules necessary for life as we know it could have been present when our own solar system formed. According to the new research — published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — the naphthalene molecules were discovered 700 light-years from Earth in a star-forming region of the constellation Perseus, in the direction of the star Cernis 52."

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Re:No moths in outer space! by Tablizer · 2008-09-20 15:12 · Score: 5, Informative

I've always wondered why the elderly are so keen on mothballs. Were there more moths around 75 years ago?
Natural fibers are more susceptible to them than synthetics, which we use more of now.

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