The Great Cosmic Bake-off
This picture shows a young star surrounded by two thick rings of gas and cosmic dust that might one day form into planets! Picking through the rings around that star they found gas containing delicate molecules that astronomers didn't think were able to survive in such conditions.
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NRAO
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