Astronomers continue to find more and more of the building blocks of life out in space. This time, researchers have announced the discovery of the amino acid tryptophan. They used data from the Spitzer Space Telescope when it observed the Perseus Molecular Complex in the IC348 star system located about 1,000 light-years from Earth. Tryptophan is one of the 20 essential amino acids used in protein formation by life on Earth. It produces a rich spectral signature in infrared, so it was the ideal t...
Astronomers continue to find more and more of the building blocks of life out in space. This time, researchers have announced the discovery of the amino acid tryptophan. They used data from the Spitzer Space Telescope when it observed the Perseus Molecular Complex in the IC348 star system located about 1,000 light-years from Earth. Tryptophan is one of the 20 essential amino acids used in protein formation by life on Earth. It produces a rich spectral signature in infrared, so it was the ideal t...
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