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Retreating Snow Line reveals Organic Molecules around Young Star

The distribution of dust is shown in orange and the distribution of methanol, an organic molecule, is shown in blue.
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Lee et al. V883Ori

Astronomers using ALMA have detected various complex organic molecules around the young star V883 Ori. A sudden outburst from this star is releasing molecules from the icy compounds in the planet forming disk. The chemical composition of the disk is similar to that of comets in the modern Solar System. Sensitive ALMA observations enable astronomers to reconstruct the evolution of organic molecules from the birth of the Solar System to the objects we see today.

The research team led by Jeong-Eun Lee (Kyung Hee University, Korea) used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to detect complex organic molec...

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