Tracing Aromatic Molecules in the Early Universe

Tracing Aromatic Molecules in the Early Universe Riverside CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 - A UC Riverside-led team of astronomers have taken us a step closer to better understand the formation and destruction mechanisms of dust molecules in the distant universe. A molecule found in car engine exhaust fumes that is thought to have contributed to the origin of life on Earth has made astronomers heavily underestimate the amount of stars that were forming in the early Universe, a Universi ... more

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