Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Sweet molecule in our galaxy


An interesting article with id number of 0811.3821 in arXiv is uploaded.
A group of astronomers in University Collage of London found the simplest monosacharite ,
"glycolaldehde" in a distant of 9 kpc in a hot molecular cloud in our galaxy.
The discovery is so interesting because this monosacharite is the block for generating Ribose which is the main block of RNA.
lately there are evidence for glycolaldeyde in the center of galaxy ,but because of high interaction rate and density of this part of galaxy it seemed natural to found it there.
But the detection of spectral line of glycolaldehde by IRAM radio telescope in France in region which star forming is probable is an interesting news for exoearth life science.
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