Carbon-ring molecules tied to life were found in space for the first time
Discovered in an interstellar cloud, the compounds are more abundant than predicted
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The 100-meter-wide Green Bank Telescope (pictured) in West Virginia detected the first definitive radio signature from space of ringed, organic molecules known as PAHs.
Brett A. McGuire