The prebiotic molecules were found in the Perseus Molecular Cloud, a young cluster of stars and gas in deep space.
— the usual building blocks of planetary systems that arise in a process similar to the one that once birthed our solar system.
The detection of prebiotic molecules at such a site and so close to the star cluster IC348 could indicate that as young planets form, they accrete material that contains molecules that eventually contribute to the formation of complex organic molecules. "These key molecules could have been supplied to the nascent planets in the protoplanetary disks and could in this way help to produce there a route towards the molecules of life," Martina Marin-Dobrincic, a scientist at Universidad Polictécnica de Cartagena and research co-author, said in the statement.in the same cloud in 2019, and the team discovered the presence of molecular hydrogen , hydroxyl , water , carbon dioxide , and ammonia as well as several carbon-based molecules.
The team also found more complex molecules like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and more fullerenes in the form of carbon-60 , and carbon-70 . "IC 348 seems to be very rich and diverse in its molecular content," Iglesias-Gorth said."The novelty is that we see the molecules in the diffuse gas from which stars and protoplanetary disks are forming."
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