Moscow, October 24, 2015, 04:51 – REGNUM An international team of scientists has discovered by a 30-meter telescope was first discovered in the composition of the comet material “building blocks” for the formation of life – molecules of ethyl alcohol and simple monosaccharide known as glycolaldehyde. This is stated in an article in the journal Science Advances.
The molecules were discovered in the study of the spectrum of comet C / 2013 Q2 (Lovejoy), opened in 2014. It found the molecule 21 organic compounds, including ethyl alcohol / ethanol, C2H5OH / and glycolaldehyde (CH2OHCHO), which had never before in comets met.
Scientists are reminded that the comet Lovejoy – one of the most active among all celestial affairs, appeared in relative proximity to the Earth over the last few decades. Most of the time the comet C / 2013 Q2 in the outer solar system – in the Oort cloud.
Earlier, the probe Philae to the surface of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko managed to find 16 organic compounds rich in carbon and nitrogen, some of which It plays a key role in the synthesis of amino acids, sugars and nukleina.
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