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Mining for Molecules in Sagittarius, 25,000 Light Years from Earth
Jun 25 2008, Andrew

Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) prospect in Sagittarius B2(N), a giant molecular cloud near the center of our Galaxy, some 25,000 light-years from Earth for new, complex molecules in interstellar space that may be...

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