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Is this the first time organic material has been confirmed outside of Earth?

• lelf 14y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interstellar_and_circumstellar_molecules http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interstellar_and_circum...
• dimitar 14y ago
  No, it is known for a long time that organic compounds like Methane are found in the atmospheres of planets and comets.
  • jlgreco 14y ago
    Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, even has lakes of either methane or ethane. (It is pretty cold out there.)
  • pavel_lishin 14y ago
    Alcohol was also found in space: http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2001/vinylalco/ http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2001/vinylalco/
    • dfischer 14y ago
      That gives me interesting sci-fi imagery. That would be a cool setting for a pirate/blackmarket trade.
      • camus 14y ago
        well , it's not the kind of brewery one wants to ingest ,but yeah , i hear you ;)