Astronomers Discover New Molecules

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[quote="Charleston WV Gazette"] August 08, 2006
Green Bank team finds biomolecules

GREEN BANK(WV) — An international research team using the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in Pocahontas County has discovered eight new complex, biologically significant molecules in the coldest reaches of interstellar space.

The discoveries, made in just two years, constitute “a feat unprecedented in the 35-year history of searching for complex molecules in space,â€