Sentences with word «glycolaldehyde»

The system was previously studied by ALMA in 2012 and found to contain molecules of the simple sugar glycolaldehyde, another ingredient for life.

17 That cloud also contains ethylene glycol, a sweet relative of glycolaldehyde and the main ingredient in antifreeze.

ALMA already captured molecules required for the birth of life such as glycolaldehyde and methanol in planet forming regions.

It also is a chemically reduced form of 8 - atom glycolaldehyde, the simplest member of the sugar family.

This means that ethylene glycol can be produced from glycolaldehyde by the addition of two hydrogen atoms.

In 2012, astronomers also using ALMA discovered glycolaldehyde — a sugar molecule — surrounding a sunlike star in the same star system.

In the first published account of sugar and alcohol in a comet, astronomers have detected ethanol, the sugar glycolaldehyde, and other organic molecules spewing from a comet known as comet Lovejoy, New Scientist reports.

The research team showed that amino nitriles could have been the catalyst for bringing together the interstellar molecules, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, glycolaldehyde, before life on Earth began.

Dr Clarke said: «We have demonstrated that the interstellar building blocks formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and glycolaldehyde can be converted in «one - pot» to biologically relevant carbohydrates — the ingredients for life.

It also found ethanol and glycolaldehyde, a simple sugar molecule.

Glycolaldehyde was detected by the mass spectrometer on board the Philae lander.

16 Glycolaldehyde can react with a three - carbon sugar to form ribose, the basis for both RNA and DNA, so the glycolaldehyde found in deep space may be a chemical precursor to life on Earth.

15 Glycolaldehyde, an eight - atom sugar, has even been found in an interstellar gas cloud near the center of the Milky Way.

Glycolaldehyde is a key component in RNA, which may have driven the development of the first living cells on Earth.

Last November an international team of astronomers made perhaps the most significant such discovery to date: They found glycolaldehyde, a type of sugar, in a Milky Way stellar nursery 26,000 light - years away.

Notable space chemicals found in just the past few years include the sweet (a sugar, glycolaldehyde), the fragrant (ethyl formate, which smells like rum), and the explosive (fulminic acid, used in detonators).

«In the disc of gas and dust surrounding this newly formed star, we found glycolaldehyde, which is a simple form of sugar, not much different to the sugar we put in coffee,» said astronomer Jes Jørgensen, who works at the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark, at the time.