Cool Stars May Have Different Prebiotic Chemical Mix
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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April 7, 2009
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