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Cosmic sugar detected in interstellar space hints at life’s origins

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Source: Nature
Cosmic sugar detected in interstellar space hints at life’s origins
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Astronomers have detected erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar, in a molecular cloud near the Milky Way’s center, marking the first true sugar found in interstellar space and supporting ideas that complex organic molecules crucial to life can form in space and may have been delivered to early Earth via comets and meteorites.

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  2. A Sweet Surprise: Scientists Find Sugar Deep in Our Galaxy  The New York Times
  3. Detection of a four-carbon sugar in interstellar space  Nature
  4. In a sweet discovery, astronomers find sugar lurking in the space between stars  AP News
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