A complex organic molecule was detected in space – El Comercio (Ecuador)

Scientists found in interstellar space molecule Organic vital to the Life , the most complex they found so far outside our solar system , announced on Tuesday, June 14, 2016.

This is a molecule chiral , not interchangeable, like the glove on the right hand and left hand, which is an essential feature in the process biological .

the molecule was was found in a large cloud of dust and gas near the center of the Milky Way , where they had been discovered so far most of the more than 180 molecules.

“it is one of the most complex molecules yet detected in interstellar space, “said Brandon Carroll , one of the authors of the study and researcher at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

chiral molecules and were observed in meteorites and comets in the solar system, researchers they pointed out.
The scientists presented their find , carried out a radio telescope that detects the vibrations of molecules in the conference of the American Astronomical Society taking place this week in San Diego, California. The results will be published in the journal American Science .

Life in the Earth is made up of groups of molecules spread between the call form “right hand” and the “left-handed” as the hands .

Almost all chiral molecules have the same physical properties, are left-handed or right-handed, but organisms alive use a single version in different biological processes.

Thus certain biomolecules like amino , exist only in a left handed configuration, while the sugars DNA are right-handed.

So far, the origin of this feature, or chirality, in the structure Life is a mystery.
Scientists hope this discovery contribution light since interstellar clouds contain the ingredients of the formation of our solar system.

“This is the first chiral molecule detected in space, which could advance the understanding of the formation of molecules prebiotic in the universe, and the role they could play in the origin of life, “believes Brett McGuire, study co-author and chemist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, in the state of Virginia.

The chiral molecule is detected oxide propylene . Researchers will try to determine if nature tends to be left or right handed.