This ice was discovered in the Chameleon I cloud, a star-forming region.
NASA, ESA, K. Luhman and T. Esplin (Pennsylvania State University), et al./ESO/Gladys Kober/The Catholic University of Japan
Fluffy ice that could help form the molecular building blocks of life has been spotted in space for the first time, nearly 30 years after researchers first observed it in the lab.
Normally, ice has a solid crystalline lattice structure, with all the H2O molecules tightly bound together by hydrogen and oxygen atoms. But when ice isn’t fully compressed, like powdered snow, some of these molecules…
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