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October 18, 2005

Life’s Building Blocks ‘Abundant in Space’ – Yahoo! News

While organic compounds have been discovered in meteorites that have landed on Earth, this is the first direct evidence for the presence of complex, important biogenic compounds in space. So far evidence suggests that PAHs are formed in the winds of dying stars and spread all over interstellar space. “This stuff contains the building blocks of life, and now we can say they’re abundant in space,” Hudgins said. “And wherever there’s a planet out there, we know that these things are going to be raining down on it. It did here and it does elsewhere.”

Life’s Building Blocks ‘Abundant in Space’ – Yahoo! News

Something may indeed be out there. The probability increases with every find like this.

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