Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States have discovered an interstellar cloud that contained a lot of pyrene, a type of molecule that contains carbon.
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The molecule, called pyrene, consists of four fused flat rings of carbon. It is classified as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), one of the most abundant complex molecules in the visible universe.
A complex form of carbon was first spotted outside the solar system by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.
The pyrene was identified in a star-forming region called the Taurus molecular cloud, 430 light-years from Earth - one of the closest clouds to our planet. The detection was made using the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope (GBT), a radio telescope at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, USA.
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Pyrene is a large molecule known as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH). Researchers speculate that this substance could be the source of much of the carbon in our solar system, which is crucial for life on Earth.
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