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nativeit 21 hours ago

Indeed I did miss that, what an incredible find, I can’t believe this never broke through into my routine news feeds!

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2024/pdf/1219.pdf

jebarker 20 hours ago | parent [-]

How suggestive is this of life elsewhere in the universe?

staplung 12 hours ago | parent [-]

On it's own, probably not that much. We know that amino acids can form in interstellar space and have in fact observed clouds of them in star-forming regions[1]. Finding them on a non-planetary object in our own solar system is certainly very cool but we already knew they existed in this neck of the woods. ;-)

1: https://www.space.com/amino-acid-tryptophan-perseus-molecula...