The Large Molecule Heimat is a dense gas cloud located in the
molecular cloud
A molecular cloud—sometimes called a stellar nursery if star formation is occurring within—is a type of interstellar cloud of which the density and size permit absorption nebulae, the formation of molecules (most commonly molecular hydrogen, ...
Sagittarius B2.
Many species of molecule, including
aminoacetonitrile
Aminoacetonitrile is the organic compound with the formula . The compound is a colorless liquid. It is unstable at room temperature, owing to the incompatibility of the amine nucleophile and the nitrile electrophile. For this reason it is usually ...
(a molecule related to
glycine
Glycine (symbol Gly or G; ) is an amino acid that has a single hydrogen atom as its side chain. It is the simplest stable amino acid. Glycine is one of the proteinogenic amino acids. It is encoded by all the codons starting with GG (G ...
),
ethyl formate,
and
butyronitrile,
have been detected in the Large Molecule Heimat.
References
Milky Way
Astrochemistry
Sagittarius (constellation)
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