Molecular handedness found in space
Propylene oxide’s two mirror-image forms could be clue to biological chirality
![gas cloud with molecular structure](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/061416_cc_chiral-molecule_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
MOLECULE CLUE A gas cloud (Sagittarius B2) near the center of the galaxy (Sagittarius A*) is loaded with propylene oxide, a molecule that comes in mirror-image configurations.
B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF from data provided by N.E. Kassim, Naval Research Laboratory, Sloan Digital Sky Survey