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Organic compound found in the stars

Life-building molecules might be spread throughout space.

Astronomers have found the largest negatively charged molecule so far seen in interstellar space. The discovery, of an organic compound, suggests that the chemical building blocks of life may be more common in the Universe than had been previously thought.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on July 24, 2007
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The universe is not the holder of secrets that most think. Before space, planets and stars there was only energy and everything formed from the energy is what we know as the universe. Every particle that is was part of that energy. That energy is what controls all parts and particles. Release that energy and there is cayous. It is not unusual that they can detect molecules of life source as the same energy formed all that is. but remember before there was space there could not have been spacemen and the earth was the beginning point! Big Al/ author, 'Albert Einstein Gets no Pink Pajamas'. Amazon.

Posted by: Big Al/ Allan Smith | July 25, 2007 02:45 PM

Detection of polycarbyne anions in space is irrelevant to planetary organic evolution. Stanley Miller's abiogenesis experiment et al. demand a vast swath of environments, Titan to terrestrial black smokers, are furious organic reactors. Extrapolating mass spec chemistries at molecules/m^3 concentrations to planets carpeted with star tar is disingenuous grantology.

Posted by: Uncle Al | July 25, 2007 03:01 PM

Ha! I knew there was a possibility that we humans are not the only life in the universe! My only question: What will life on another planet REALLY look like?

Posted by: CJ_Voges | July 26, 2007 05:53 AM

Results from sep. study, and view, confirms and begs for info that can't yet be known. I state that any finding must be linked by default to the unfound, and- compounds found, like ours, that could support life necessarily must on some level. good news

Posted by: Neil Toland | July 27, 2007 12:20 PM

I am sorry, but I cannot agree with the choice of the title: organic compounds have been found in cold gas clouds, out (although near) of any star.

Posted by: Giuseppe Pagliarulo | July 27, 2007 04:25 PM

The observation of this negatively charged eight-carbon chemical entity implies, also the existence of some positively charged entity in the general environment. My general idea is that the efficient self-assembly of opposite charged chemical entities on regular polyhedral motif, as buckminster fuller would argue, would make life in many places in the universe as on earth. i would not be surprised if life-suggestive phenomena, and indeed life, appear in many places in our univese.

Posted by: chidi g osuagwu | July 27, 2007 11:46 PM

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