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    Peptides on interstellar ice: Study finds presence of water molecules is not a major obstacle for formation

    April 18, 2024, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Peptides on interstellar ice: Study finds presence of water molecules not a major obstacle for formation
    Dr. Serge Krasnokutski, Laboratory Astrophysics and Cluster Physics group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, investigates the formation of biomolecules under space conditions with a vacuum chamber. Credit: Jens Meyer / University of Jena

    A research team led by Dr. Serge Krasnokutski from the Astrophysics Laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy at the University of Jena had already demonstrated that simple peptides can form on cosmic dust particles. However, it was previously assumed that this would not be possible if molecular ice, which covers the dust particle, contains water—which is usually the case.

    Now the team, in collaboration with the University of Poitiers, France, has discovered that the presence of water molecu...

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