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Cool Stars May Have Different Prebiotic Chemical Mix

NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHU2009-04-07

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NASA Spitzer Space Telescope detected a prebiotic, or potentially life-forming, molecule called hydrogen cyanide HCN in the planet-forming disks around yellow stars like our sun, but not in the disks around cooler, reddish stars.

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  • Title: Cool Stars May Have Different Prebiotic Chemical Mix
  • Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHU
  • Date Created: 2009-04-07
  • Rights: JPL
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