How Sweet It Is!

Milky Way's sweetness throughout

A simple sugar that is an ingredient of life has been found for the first time in a relatively hospitable part of the galaxy.

"The importance of this discovery lies in the fact that the glycolaldehyde has been detected towards a region where planets orbiting newly formed stars are expected to exist - and planets could be the cradle of life," says co-author of the study Claudio Codella of the Institute of Radio Astronomy in Florence, Italy.

The results will spur further research to look for complex molecules that up to now have only been seen in the galactic centre.

"The search for prebiotic molecules in star-forming regions is still in the fledgling stages but the door is open now," says co-author Roberto Neri, an astronomer at the Institute for Millimetre Radio Astronomy, home to the Plateau de Bure facility.

"I believe that many more of these molecules will show up in the near future," he adds.

All history is the history of the evolutionary transubstantiation of matter to Spirit via biological-life processes of Blood and Reason.