Sugar Found in Frigid Space Cloud

[Kneeknocker]

Astronomers have found a sweet spot in a sublimely cold and vast interstellar cloud.

An eight-atom sugar called glycolaldehyde has been found residing at eight degrees above absolute zero in the Sagittarius B2 dust cloud, some 26,000 light-years from Earth.

The sugar is just a few steps from ribose, an essential ingredient of DNA.

News link (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040920/spacesugar.html)

[damienpaul]

silly quation, just how many types of sugar are there?

[ASEI]

Yum :P

[Spacemad]

:D :P Now even space is being sweetened up! :P :D

[GOURDHEAD]

Now even space is being sweetened up!

It has "ever" (actually only 12 or so billion years) been thus.

[Dave Mitsky]

Can spice be far behind?

Dave Mitsky

[damienpaul]

what of coffee and tea,...it had better not be decaf!!!