Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) tagged posts

A Sanitizer in the Galactic Center Region

Alcohol in space: the position of star-forming molecular cloud Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) close to the central source of… [more]
© GLOSTAR (Bruntaler et al. 2021, Astronomy & Astrophysics): Background image. Wikipedia (public domain): Propanol and isopropanol models

An international group of researchers led by Arnaud Belloche (MPIfR, Bonn, Germany) reports the first identification of isopropanol in interstellar space, a substance which is used as a sanitizer on Earth. Iso-propanol is the largest alcohol detected so far, demonstrating the increasing complexity of members of one of the most abundant classes of molecule that can be found in space...

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