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ScienceDaily (Jan. 15, 2008) — Astronomers from Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have detected for the first time the molecules and — two ingredients that build life-forming — in a galaxy some 250 million light years away.
When combined with water, the molecules form , the simplest amino acid and a building block of life on Earth.
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“The fact that we can observe these substances at such a vast distance means that there are huge amounts of them in Arp 220,” said Emmanuel Momjian, a former astronomer, now at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, N.M. “It is indeed very intriguing to find that the ingredients of life appear in large quantities where new and are born.”
This finding alone vastly increases the probability of existing elsewhere in the universe.
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