16-03-2024 11:00 via mashable.com

Webb telescope makes curious find in deep space: alcohol

The powerful eye of the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted vital chemicals around two youthful stars.Astronomers focused the space observatory, which orbits 1 million miles from Earth, on cosmic regions around these protostars, which are so youthful they haven't yet formed planets. But they almost certainly will: NASA suspects nearly every star has at least one planet.And in these planet-forming regions the Webb telescope found "complex organic molecules," including ethanol (the alcohol foun
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