Pre-Life Chemistry Happens at Space Temperatures

from 60-Second Space · host Scientific American

UV light, which radiates from stars and galaxies, can induce rapid changes in icy hydrocarbon molecules cooled to 5 kelvins, as on a comet. John Matson reports

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