
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): For Release: Monday, 30 July 2018, 11 a.m. EDT Summary: Astronomers have made the first definitive detection of a radioactive molecule in interstellar space: a form, or isotopologueIsotopologue Isotopologues are molecules that differ only in their isotopic composition. Simply, the isotopologue of a molecule has at least one atom with a different number of neutrons than the parent atom. of aluminum monofluoride (26AlF). The new data - made with ALMA an...
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