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Chilean telescope finds sugar molecules near star
Astronomers using a powerful radio telescope in Chile said Wednesday that they had discovered sugar molecules, one of the building blocks of life, orbiting a young star similar to the Sun. “This is the first time sugar been found in space around such a star,” the European Southern Observatory (ESO),…
Scientists can’t seem to find mysterious dark matter
Astronomers scanning the Milky Way said on Wednesday they were baffled when they failed to spot something invisible. To explain: the team were looking for evidence of dark matter, the substance that is believed to comprise 83 percent of matter in the Universe. But it cannot be detected by the…
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