Life Starting Materials Found in Dusty Disk
This graph, or spectrum, from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope tells astronomers that some of the most basic ingredients of DNA and protein are concentrated in a dusty planet-forming disk circling a young sun-like star called IRS 46.
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PIA03242
Date Created
December 20, 2005
Center
JPL
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