http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070723/full/070723-5.html


Published online: 24 July 2007; | doi:10.1038/news070723-5
Organic compound found in the stars
Life-building molecules might be spread throughout space.

Ewen Callaway



Astronomers have found the largest negatively charged molecule so far seen in interstellar space. The discovery, of an organic compound, suggests that the chemical building blocks of life may be more common in the Universe than had been previously thought.

The molecule is a chain of eight carbons and a single hydrogen called the octatetraynyl anion (C8H¯). Two teams of scientists have spotted it near a dying star and in a cloud of cold gas.

The discovery, along with that of three smaller organic molecules in the past year, opens up a suite of potential chemical reactions and products. It suggests that 'prebiotic' molecules such as amino acids, the building blocks of protein, could form all over the Universe...

I'm not surprised its not as if the building blocks for life should only be right here in our solar system.


They need to find things that we don`t already know by using our own logic.

amen.